Prompt updates w/o pressing enter

[joacimmelin]

It would be nice if status messages (other users logs in or out, new posts, etc) is displayed at the prompt w/o me having to press enter to see all of them

[quite]

I remember "vilka -b" to keep watch over the nodes. But maybe that was a Fabbes BBS extension :)

[punktniklas]

"Vilka" is a standard NiKom command and the flag "-v" gives more verbose information. I don't know if Fabbes had some special command that had a "-b" flag. Fabbes had so many weird things. :-)

Sure, it would be nice if messages were automatically displayed when at the prompt (but only there). It's not super simple to implement though..

[joacimmelin]

Sklaffkom is able to do this. Maybe there is something in that source code that can be re-used?

www.sklaffkom.se.

[punktniklas]

I doubt it. The problem is not there that needs to be some advanced algorithm or data structure that can be borrowed from Sklaffkom. The issues lies in straightening out some of NiKom's lower level IO so that interrupts like this can be made possible.