Thread: [Erc-help] [gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta,gmane.emacs.xemacs.patches] [PATCH] erc-bbdb usability fix.

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This is probably the proper place to send this patch...

Nelson Ferreira <nel...@ie...> writes:

> This is probably the proper place to send this patch...
>
> From:  Nelson Ferreira <nel...@ie...>
> Subject: [PATCH] erc-bbdb usability fix.
> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta, gmane.emacs.xemacs.patches
> Cc: xem...@xe...
> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:12:16 -0500
> Organization: - none -
>
> Hi all,
>
> I suppose I must be one of the very few using BBDB with erc, because
> by default the erc-bbdb package exhibits a veryu annoying behavior I
> find hard to believe people like:
>      * When showing the BBDB popup, the BBDB buffer is electric which
>        means that it captures the keyboard "focus"  and basically
>        prevents updates to the channel buffer.
>      * Specially annoying when a lot of the people in the channel are
>        known to you and you are joining.
>
> The patch adds a customize option to control this behavior (I think
> off is the right default, but feel free to put it as t for backwards
> compatibility.)
>
> With erc-bbdb-electric-p set to nil, the bbdb buffer is no longer
> electric and it does not block progress.

Thanks!  I have now included this with the development version of ERC.

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Michael Olson <mw...@gn...> writes:

> Nelson Ferreira <nel...@ie...> writes:
>
>> This is probably the proper place to send this patch...
>>
>> From:  Nelson Ferreira <nel...@ie...>
>> Subject: [PATCH] erc-bbdb usability fix.
>> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta, gmane.emacs.xemacs.patches
>> Cc: xem...@xe...
>> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:12:16 -0500
>> Organization: - none -
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I suppose I must be one of the very few using BBDB with erc, because
>> by default the erc-bbdb package exhibits a veryu annoying behavior I
>> find hard to believe people like:
>>      * When showing the BBDB popup, the BBDB buffer is electric which
>>        means that it captures the keyboard "focus"  and basically
>>        prevents updates to the channel buffer.
>>      * Specially annoying when a lot of the people in the channel are
>>        known to you and you are joining.
>>
>> The patch adds a customize option to control this behavior (I think
>> off is the right default, but feel free to put it as t for backwards
>> compatibility.)
>>
>> With erc-bbdb-electric-p set to nil, the bbdb buffer is no longer
>> electric and it does not block progress.
>
> Thanks!  I have now included this with the development version of ERC.

Is this not a candidate for the 5.1 branch as well?

Looks look a real usage problem from Nelson's description.

-- 
Adrian Aichner
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Adrian Aichner <ad...@xe...> writes:

> Is this not a candidate for the 5.1 branch as well?
>
> Looks look a real usage problem from Nelson's description.

Yep.  It's now merged into the 5.1 release branch as well.  I'll let a
few more fixes accumulate, and then make a 5.1.3 bugfix release.

In particular, I'd like to make some sort of server-local automatic
reconnect limit (defaulting to 3), so that when the connection goes
out for a while, ERC doesn't block other Emacs programs.  It'd also be
nice to never try to reconnect if the user being prompted for an IRC
server to connect to, in case they make a typo.

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