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See also: ideas.txt.
FujiChat features, we're almost at parity!
- Nick tab completion. FujiChat's was very lame, make this one
less lame. It can't be perfect due to limited RAM.
- Configurable ctcp version response.
- Keyboard buffer, if possible. Right now we miss the occasional
keystroke when typing fast & furious during network I/O. Not
sure how to accomplish this with FujiNet (the old FujiChat
key buffer actually hooked into the SLIP code).
Other stuff:
- Allow typing a character in the last edit box position.
- Make Start+A search backwards (from screen 7), since [server]
is the least interesting screen (we don't want it constantly
coming up first).
- Atari key should insert a ^B. Then the actual ^B keystroke can
do something else.
- ^B and ^F for back/forward one word in the editbox.
- Server /ping command is iffy (see do_server_pong() in irc.c).
- Bug: *no idea* how this happened. I typed /quit, then reconnected,
and got "USER: not enough parameters" from the server. Can't
reproduce.
- In the config, under SDX, saying "N" to "Settings OK" and then
reloading the config causes screen corruption (reported by
TheDoctor, not tried it myself). The config tool has changed a
lot since then, so re-check.
- "User has kicked <yourname> from #channel", the name should be
replaced by "you".
- Gracefully handle nicks/channels whose lengths are stupid long.
At least we shouldn't overflow any buffers.
- Channel tab completion for the [server] screen.
- At least one keyboard macro (for ChanServ auth). More would
be nice, if we can afford the RAM.
- Error numerics should go to the current screen (?).
- Autojoin on startup (see config file section below). Partially done.
- Add an optional key parameter to /join (key). spec calls for it,
I've never seen it used.
- 'Dead' screens (channels we've parted, or failed to join) should
show some kind of indicator, and not accept input. Although maybe
this isn't worth doing (you already get "cannot send to channel").
- *Possibly* save the config from within the client... though not
all options can be changed (really only /nick and /beep). To
make this useful would probably bloat the code too much. Some
way to change the IRC server/port within the app would be very
useful though.
- Loading/title screen. Display immediately before the config init
segment is loaded, and again when it runs the client. Its DL and
data can be kept in scrollback RAM, since scr_init() clears it.
Should be small & simple (one line of GR.2 probably). Have to
not disable ANTIC DMA during the client load.
- Input box history. Up-arrow to recall previous command. Unfortunately
this needs a lot of RAM. Maybe just one previous command, so you
can up-arrow to re-ping someone, etc.
Config file and initial config:
- The config tool should be rewritten in asm, for size. It doesn't
need to be fast, but it needs to *load* fast.
- The config UI should be nicer. Dialog/curses style, arrows to move, and
hotkeys like [S]erver, [N]ick. Categories (as tabs? tree?). I'm not
going to get this right without some user feedback, since I'm mainly
a CLI and text editor guy.
- There should be a preset list of servers to choose from, or the
user can enter his own.
- There should be a file selector for load/save config.
More prefs:
- CTCP VERSION response? Do we need it?
- List of non-screen channels to join (config asks for this, client doesn't use).
- Ignore list (maybe).
- Connect macro (log in to bot).
Remember, the config has to be <= 512 bytes!
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