[mICQ] feature request?

[Rüdiger Kuhlmann]

>--[Martin Stubenschrott]--<stubenschrott at gmx.net>

> Well it's me again, and not him, but the only thing I am really
> missing/hating in micq is, that I cannot edit previous lines in a long
> multiline message.

That would be not so easy to do. Currently, it will just note that
it started a multiline-command. Then, any command entered will be
considered another line for that and appended to the message. It
doesn't even have the previous lines by themselves anymore at that
time.

> With readline I think this would be quite easy, but I don't know if you
> are using this library.

That depends, of course, how you use the library. Using it naïvely here
would not make a difference. So no, mICQ doesn't use libreadline. Reasons:
one more dependency, can be massively slow in old versions, cannot insert
characters that cannot be displayed in the terminal's encoding (e.g. with
mICQ, enter "msg <contact> " ESC u 5 0 1 1 <return>, and you can send
someone the 們 character even if your terminal cannot display it).

So it would need some work. A function to tell the code in util_rl.c to
read a multi-line input, add some editing like going back one line etc,
whatever you want. So please open a feature request on sourceforge, as
it won't be my priority currently. Or make a patch ;-) It's definately
something that would be useful.

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