A couple thoughts-
1. Jbaitis said on IRC last week that jailbait 6.0 is around the corner. It's got a ton of improvements, fixes and new features and stuff. He just had one last thing to do get Netscape running. You should probably contact him via e-mail, #i-opener-linux at irc.openprojects.net (org?) or jailbait.souceforge.net and let him know about your changes so he can incorporate them.
2. Pico is much prefereable to vi, IMO
3. I built an i-o version of CAIM (another text-based AIM) that would toggle the phone LED. (on when a message came in, off when the user types).
I'm sure you'd have no problem adding it to NAIM, and I'd gladly switch cuz the version of CAIM I use blows.
Here's the C code I used to turn the switch on/off. This works with the ioled module compiled in w/jailbait.
FILE *fil;
// wherever it detects the keypress add this
// shut off dat der LED wid each keypress.
fil = fopen("/dev/ioled", "w");
fprintf(fil, "2");
fclose(fil);
// then later, when a new message comes in
// add this:
fil = fopen("/dev/ioled", "w");
fprintf(fil, "3");
fclose(fil);
(there's probably a cleaner way to do it, but that's what worked. I'm no programmer.)
Waldo