Manual scrolling.

[Xithrius]

Implementation:

• Allow the user to scroll through messages, being with the scroll wheel, up/down arrow keys, and even j or k.
• When scrolling through messages, the currently selected one should be bold.
• Allow user and moderator actions on a selected message such as copy and delete (if possible).

There are different users within Twitch, and then subsets of those users. Let's try to find a way to cater to all of them, either through different options in the config file or general-purpose manual scrolling. Given that someone has gone out of their way to download and setup the binary of this program, we can assume that they're most likely willing to either read large chunks of chat or freeze every so often to see if a message really is what they saw.

Implementation suggestions as of now when manual scrolling mode is activated for the chat:

• The new messages get stored in the VecDeque for later viewing. Once the user exists out of manual scrolling mode (which only gives the previously configured amount of messages backwards, stored in config.terminal.maximum_messages), they get to see the most recent messages as a whole.
• An amount of config.terminal.maximum_messages / 2 as a floored float are available backwards and forwards (for new messages). Once new messages appear, there are two options:
  • Remove messages from the back of the VecDeque so there's room for new messages.
  • Use a different data structure (if needed) to allow for adjust the amount of messages to be stored in the front, so all new messages are available while only some backwards are.

For channel and user searching, a function will be created to go through the items. The popup window will not expand beyond a certain point.

TODO:

• Chat
• Users
• Channels

[Xithrius]

This will be implemented in #74.

Now that mouse scrolling has been acquired, this was pushed back to #104.