Re: [Freeciv-Dev] patch to allow more : on chatline

[Mika Korhonen <mikak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, David Pfitzner wrote:

>Reinier Post wrote:
>
>> i: go away!
>> 
>> would be a private message to the *Indians* (after all, I can see
>> on the map that the vessel is Indian).
>
>Good idea, and it should be pretty easy to add: just match
>vs player race names (with abbreviations) after matching
>vs player names.  The only minor problem is that it adds more 
>potential ambiguity for short (eg, one/few letter) abbreviations.
>
>And all this should be documented somewhere; 
>maybe a brief help page on "Chatline".
>
>-- David
>

As an ex-ircist I see some similarities between chatline and irc (obvious,
isn't that?-)... Maybe that's why I'd like to see more. Some irc scripts
used to have the tab key extension which allows to browse the people one
has sent private messages.
        So hitting the tab key constantly would have the effect first to
get the previous player that has been sent a msg typed in the beginning of
the chatline, then in some order ( { alphabetical | chronological, the irc
style | other } here i'd maybe prefer alphabetical with respect to the race
or player names) to browse the other human players.

        Mika    
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