Question: Does the application poll regularly by itself?

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Question: Does the application poll regularly by itself?

LukeCageCodes opened this issue 3 years ago · comments

LukeCageCodes commented 3 years ago

Does the app poll regularly?

Or only when \r is used?

For me, it would be useful if the application polled regularly.

Neil Richter · Answer 1 · Mon Nov 22 2021 06:05:31 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

It doesn't. I didn't try to check what would happen when polling, I was afraid the whole terminal would repaint and thus delete what you started writing when doing that.

I'll try to check that when I have time

LukeCageCodes · Answer 2 · Mon Nov 22 2021 06:11:14 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Ah ok, that makes sense!

Signal has this command-line-based interface: https://github.com/isamert/scli

It works very well - though it's done in python. Not sure how one would do this in nodejs.

LukeCageCodes · Answer 3 · Sun Nov 28 2021 18:37:39 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi @noook - I have a follow-up question. When you go from the conversation list to the message list, does it fetch new messages then? That might be fairly safe to do... In combination with #6, that would mean that it's easy to check for new messages by pressing enter twice.