Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 15:40:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/27972: talk feature Message-ID: <200106112240.f5BMe8f47020@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/27972; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> To: sebster@sebster.com Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/27972: talk feature Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 02:35:54 +0400 sebster@sebster.com wrote: > [] > >Description: > Using the talk utility it is possible to communicate to other users, however > if they have something to say that is longer than your buffer you lose the > information without any way to check what was said. > >How-To-Repeat: > Say a lot to somebody in a talk window in a short amount of time. > >Fix: > A very simple fix which would make talk about 1000 times more convenient > (IMHO) would be to flip the windows: put "me" in the bottom, and "him" in > the top window. That way, whether you are on the console or in an xterm, > you can scroll back to see what the other person said. Please take a look to e.g. talk in linux's netkit package. Talk there has "slightly" different feature that is "the right thing(TM)" to do IMHO: it can scroll both half-windows of its own, using ^P and ^N for other window and M-P and M-N for my window. Don't know how many lines it remembers, maybe even all conversation... I also saw a version of talk that displays tiny scrollbars (all in textmode) and allows to click to it with a mouse. BTW, I don't know how to properly respond to such messages and gnats... ;) Regards, Michael. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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