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6:01:07
beach
loke[m]: Are you still thinking of writing a CLIM-based IRC client? I really need a better one now.
6:02:04
beach
I am thinking tabs for the channels, and colors to indicate various states of the channel, like whether a channel has mentioned my handle.
6:04:28
beach
Also, a way to mark the place where I was last reading. Now I do that with Emacs registers, but it would be good to have such markers per-channel. Emacs registers are global.
6:41:22
loke[m]
But it's a Matrix client. However, matrix is linked to libera so it works fine there.
6:55:59
loke[m]
That said, I haven't gotten very far yet, and moving the chat protocol backend to a generic protocol would certainly be possible.
6:56:47
loke[m]
But things like search is automatically solved by using Matrix to connect to libera instead of IRC directly, since the protocol already has that stuff built in.
6:57:05
Mondenkind
feature-sets of matrix and irc differ. IRC has colours, custom modes; matrix has not, but has (afaik) inline pictures and media attachments
6:59:34
beach
The search I was thinking of would be more like Emacs incremental search in the "buffer" that holds the utterances.
7:13:25
loke[m]
<Mondenkind> "feature-sets of matrix and irc..." <- Yeah, a generic client would have to have the ability to have different features for different chat systems, based capabilities.
7:13:38
jackdaniel
loke[m]: do I understand correctly that this protocol-wise search facility requires connecting to the server?