[Erc-help] Re: [idea] timestamp logs, even when timestamping is disabled

[Mario L. <ml...@de...>]

Andras BALI <dr...@bi...> writes:

> Would it be possible to be able to save timestamps in logs even when
> timestamping is disabled in the buffers? I believe this is a good
> idea, because in principle I really don't need timestamps, but logs
> are for archiving - and it can be important to know when did the
> events happen.
Sounds good.

> According to an IRC conversation with delYsid, this feature requires
> two things to be implemented:
> 
> 1. Make sure that *every* line of the ERC buffer has a timestamp
>    property -- it wasn't true for messages by me, but adding
>    
>      (put-text-property 0 (length s) `timestamp (current-time) s)
> 
>    around line #1760 seemed to help. Note that it adds the property
>    only to the message, not to the nick and it may be wrong with
>    actions different from channel text.

I just had an idea. Maybe somewhere around erc-insert-hook, we can just 
add timestamping for ALL texts. This way we dont need to duplicate that
timestamping code too much. I wanted to look at the erc-insert-hook
situation anyway before 3.0, because currently we have a erc-insert-hook
which has around 7 functions on it, and order is getting to get important.
So this needs possibly some rewrite. Ill look at that.

> 2. Write a function that saves the erc buffer line by line and
>    extracts the timestamp for each line from the properties, converts
>    it to human-readable form and adds it.     

Is anyone who uses logging alot interested in implementing such a function?
It isnt terrible hard after all.

> My lisp knowledge is unfortunately way too rough to be able to code
> anything usable, hence is the subject. Any help would be appreciated.

-- 
CYa,
   Mario <ml...@de...>