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From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Subject: Re: bin/27972: talk feature
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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.

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