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I'd like F6 to toggle chat visibility allowing you to mine in peace when the chat is being spammed with stupid shop ads. And in the options it would allow you to toggle whether or not it should receive the chat while it's invisible or not. When that is turned off your internet can put more effort in contacting the server instead of the chat seeing how someone spamming the chat with this option on would lag your game but with it off it wouldn't. But it would be rather impossible to keep the server crashing from a client-side mod so if the server were to crash from spam even with the special option on you would be disconnected.

You want to mine in peace? Singleplayer Mode

True I was just thinking of something that did that. I would just use F1 but it removes the sight of your tools, cursor, and chat. All I really want to do is just remove the chat.

Well screenshot 12w17a allows you to toggle chat but theres no key for that so that would be a good idea also a proper key for toggling fog would be nice again much but than F+F3 may be F8 or F4 would be nice for fog and yes F6 for chat

anyone know of any mods that do this? i would be totally down for this idea if it was in the GUI options menu, rather than a key. but i could deal with it (much better than the mods that you have to type in a command, which i refuse)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/45360672/Hide Chat.zip
There, I coded a mod to hide chat for 1.2.5. It used F6 to toggle it.
I personally don't support this idea especially since its an option in 1.3
Why would you need a key when its an option, are you too lazy to go click it?

Sudo code if someone wants to continue it (I don't see why you would).

if()
{
 toggle;
}

.class

if( is true)
{
stop rendering;
}