RE: [gtk-list] Re: IRC client

[Elliot Lee <sopwith cuc edu>]

On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Tony Gale wrote:

> On 27-Jan-98 Elliot Lee wrote:
> > I was thinking, it seems like you're writing an IRC client and I'm
> > writing
> > an IRC client, why not just pool efforts?
> 
> I'm certainly open to this, but we may have different design
> philosophies :-)
> 
> For example - mine allows you to use one window for multiple
> channels.

Well, this is fixable without too much hassle, but if I wanted everything
in one window, I'd use ircII like I currently do ;-) However, the
interface will allow you to do things like '/query #anotherchannel' in a
channel window to switch to another channel, and '/msg #anotherchannel
amsg' to send messages to another channel. I'm aiming for an interface
similar to the screenshots I've seen of kirc.

I've just finished doing up a nice command handler, next todo is cleaning
up & improving handling of incoming messages from IRC (which is already
reasonably done, just need to make it handle a lot more messages, and also
do the multi-line stuff like a /list and a /names).

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