There was a lot of progress in the development of Beirc since my last entry. We (splittist, mgr and I) fixed the three most annoying things so far:

• You no longer have to hit the “/” key to be able to click on presentations. It’s funny how before, everybody said that they don’t mind hitting “/” before reaching for the mouse; but now, I don’t think anybody would want to go back.
• Hitting RET in the middle of a line doesn’t land you in the debugger, and
• Tab completion now works.

Then, there are dozens of little things that we improved (better message display, useful customizations and defaults, timestamps in columns, more presentations and more clickable things). And of course, there’s mgr’s wonderful new tab-layout-pane code (lisp porn here).

So, beirc is rapidly becoming an IRC client that I really enjoy using (and, of course, hacking on). Join in the fun on #beirc!