# nomadnet improvements

_General · started by jlamothe on Tue, Sep 8, 2026 10:40 PM_

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## Original post

**jlamothe** · Tue, Sep 8, 2026 10:40 PM

I've really been enjoying nomadnet, but I've found some rough edges here and there.  I know that Mark isn't in a position to be taking bug reports/feature requests at present, so I've taken it upon myself to make some small enhancements to a private fork.

I'd be happy to contribute those changes upstream or to share them publicly if anyone would like.  Also, I wouldn't mind getting a little code review on them.  I'm still pretty inexperienced with this particular codebase.

I can detail what I'm doing in this thread, but if there's a better place to discuss this, I'm happy to move that conversation elsewhere as well.

Is this a thing that anyone would actually have any interest in?

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## Reply 1

**jlamothe** · Tue, Sep 8, 2026 10:57 PM

The first change I made was a small one.  It turns out that the built-in RRC client doesn't play particularly well with a standard 80 column display.  The channel and user panes can be collapsed with the Ctrl-y and Ctrl-u keyboard shortcuts, which really helps.  The trouble is that these keyboard shortcuts don't work when the field to type a message is focused.

At first, I just wanted to enable it while the field is focused, but then I realised that those partular shortcuts conflict with the standard text editing shortcuts.  Instead, what I did was to add alternate shortcuts (Alt-y and Alt-u) that will work in either context.  I left the original keybindings intact to avoid breaking the UX for anyone who is already used to them the way they are.

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