Chat text clobbers message text

[ldelossa]

Maybe not a bug, but is it supposed to be the case that when typing a message incoming chat messages interleave with what you're typing?

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
Use kirc in a chat where ppl are talking.
Start typing a message.
Text in message will interleave with text from chat

Expected behavior
Message text is written in an area of the ui not interleaved by other chat messages.

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Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: fedora 32
• Browser N/a
• Version 0.0.8

Smartphone (please complete the following information):

• Device: [e.g. iPhone6]
• OS: [e.g. iOS8.1]
• Browser [e.g. stock browser, safari]
• Version [e.g. 22]

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[mcpcpc]

This behavior is consistent with other clients, such as sic, but i agree that this is not desired. I currently have fixing this listed todo tracker (#12) but i think it makes sense to keep this as a dedicated issue.

[ldelossa]

Id be interested in helping out. I have a little bit of experience with term programming, more on the vim side of things. But this looks cool, and i like the idea of a super simple client. Know where youd want to start on this?

[mcpcpc]

that would be amazing!

i imagine the best place would be to inspect the termios library flags and see which will give the desired affect: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/termios.3.html

as far as i gather, we should be able to simply save the current terminal settings, apply the flags that have the desired affect, and restore the saved flags before exiting:

struct termios tp, save;
tcgetattr(STDIN_FILENO, &tp); //get current flags
save = tp;
// define flags
tcsetattr(STDIN_FILENO, TCSANOW, &tp) //set flags
// do stuff
tcsetattr(STDIN_FILENO, TCSANOW, &save) < 0) // restore saved flags

[mcpcpc]

fixed in 7eec954

[ldelossa]

Very cool! Excited to check this out. Thank you.