From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: andrey mirtchovski <andrey@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] irc tools
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Date: Fri,  4 Oct 2002 11:24:21 -0600
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see the control library (libcontrol).. it has all you need for implementing
an irc client. acme would be even better, of course.

sometime in april i was thinking of creating a term-like control
with copy/paste functionality, but gave up on grounds of lazyness[1].

i'm trying to see if i can dig out from the university of saskatchewan
backups my 200 or so lines irc client (~ 09/2000), but hopes aren't high.

a year ago there was discussion on how to implement an irc slient the p9 way
(with a user-space file server) but nothing came out of it :)

andrey

[1] in the meantime i've stopped using irc -- efnet is not what it used to
be 7 years ago :)

On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Jack Johnson wrote:

> I'm looking forward to trying this out.
>
> I've used 9irc for kicks, and it made me consider what a proper Plan 9
> IRC interface might look like, and the closest I can envision (without
> more caffeine) is an inverted sam interface, with a command window at
> the bottom and multiple client streams in discrete windows above.  It
> might provide a clean way to separate the messages to the server from
> the data received, segregate private messages from the channels, etc.
>
> Any commands (other than /server) would be directed at the server
> associated with the active window.
>
> Some clever plumbing, and you might just be able to use sam....