Re: [dev] Ideas for using sic

From: Eric Pruitt <eric.pruitt_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 16:35:05 -0700

On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 04:47:48PM +0200, q_AT_c9x.me wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 04:03:34PM -0700, Eric Pruitt wrote:
> > I'm considering making a sic fork called "nssic" or "not so simple irc
> > client" and integrating libreadline or libedit.
>
> My post points to an existing project that is too close
> to what you describe to be ignored. Why writing one more
> client? Just strip the multichan thing and you get what
> you want.

Most of the sic code would remain unchanged if I were to integrate
libreadline directly to eliminate the output munging problem. The only
reason for forking sic is because I'm sure my patches would not be
accepted. That being said, there's no point in using something "close"
to what I want when I can have exactly what I want without much work.
After all, there are plenty of IRC clients out there yet you chose to
make another. Pretty much every single curses IRC client out there has a
superset of your client's features.

Furthermore, no, it's not close in that I actually _like_ the output
style of sic including the all-channels-one-stream feature. At one
point, I was working on a program called "REPLplex" that multiplexed
various REPL's into a single terminal and functioned much like sic. My
input problems have been mostly solved with srw (Ctrl+Y doesn't paste,
but the rlwrap author intends to implement the feature I requested, so
I'll eventually have _all_ the readline-goodness again), I always use
tmux or screen, so I don't need a curses-implemented scrollback buffer,
and if I used your client, I would also lose my syntax highlighting and
the ability to format or restrict the displayed output of sic in general
while simultaneously being able to to log everything by sticking in
tee(1) before the filtering and formatting part of the pipeline.

Also, your emacs/readline-esque bindings also missing Ctrl+Y to paste
which I use quite often; in that way, your program falls even further
from what I want.

Eric
Received on Fri Oct 03 2014 - 01:35:05 CEST