A few of us in #mIRC on Undernet were talking about how IRC could be improved and i'm wondering (out of curiosity mainly) what people think of some of the proposed changes/additions.
I suggested:
1) That modes and the /list command would support regular expressions.
2) /list will only send back the channels you requested. /list egg would send back "#egg" if it exists, not "#segg", "#eggs", etc.
3) You can specify a prefix to search for in /list, for example: /list &* will only send back a list of channels that start with &, channels that start with # wouldn't be listed.
Necroman suggested:
1) That channels can be given a keyword (IE: #mIRC could have a "mIRC" or "Computing" keyword), this way you can see what the main subject of a channel is.
Of course you could argue that the topic could be used for this, but the topic is not always clear.
This is my favourite suggestion:
2) When you send a /list command the server will send back a "reference number", you can later send this reference number with /list and the server will only send back the channels that have changed or been created since you sent the last /list.
