From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3D9DC48C.5060801@nas.com> From: Jack Johnson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] irc tools References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 09:40:44 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: fd27ccf4-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Russ Cox wrote: > i'm more interested in scripting things than > actually chatting, hence the rough interactive > interface. 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.... -Jack