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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:
- Great idea from The_Doctor: move the status numbers over to
the right, use the left for a notification area. Have it
show e.g. CONNECTED, DISCONNECTED, PING/PONG. Messages would
persist for some amount of time, and/or until you press a key.
While I'm at it, I could show up/down arrows in the first
column for network activity.
- ^U works, but is slow (calls backspace() in a loop, which does a
memmove() each time).
- Start+E: show entire editbox (plus status, but not screen text).
- 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.
- "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 (?).
- 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?
- Ignore list (maybe).
- Connect macro (log in to bot).
Remember, the config has to be <= 512 bytes!
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