Subj : Re: Finger mod
To   : Angus McLeod
From : Deuce
Date : Tue Feb 05 2008 05:10 pm

  Re: Re: Finger mod
  By: Angus McLeod to Deuce on Tue Feb 05 2008 07:53 pm

 >  > I've actually looked into having Synchronet track outgoing ANSI so it
 >  > *could* restore arbitrary parts the screen, but decided I didn't want
 >  > to bother since I personally wouldn't that often enough.
 >
 > I see that as a huge overhead for a feature that is of relatively
 > infrequent utility.  And that's without taking the development effort into
 > account.

The overhead is pretty low actually... and the code is already written.  The
only extra work would be in making the current code thread-safe which would be
fairly trivial since it almost is already.

However, the usefullness of it is still most likely not worth the minimal
effort it would require since it would still not be generic.  Just because
something is what was indented to be on the remote screen is no guarantee
that's what is there.  Further, there is the possibility that ANSI is disabled,
so redrawing a small segment requires redrawing the entire screen etc.

Sometimes though, I still wish I had it.  :-)

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