[Erc-help] Re: Advising few commands ?

[Xavier M. <ze...@gn...>]

On  6 May 2004, Lawrence Mitchell wrote:

> Xavier Maillard wrote:
> 
> > Just a question, I am  not really familiar with defadvice stuff even
> > after reading documentation on that topic.
> 
> > I would like to advise few commands such as erc-cmd-WHOIS to display
> > the result in a x-tooltip window instead of the current buffer.
> 
> You can't do this in WHOIS itself, since most ERC commands, WHOIS

Oops, actually it was erc-cmd-IGNORE, sorry :)

> included, work on a callback system.  WHOIS sends a command,
> using `erc-send-command', and then returns t.  The command is
> then sent, and ERC sits around waiting for the server's response.
> At this point, `erc-cmd-WHOIS' has nothing left to do.  Rather,
> the server callback is handled by whatever sits on the
> `erc-server-foo-hook'.  In this case, `erc-server-311-hook' is
> the one you're looking for (that being the numeric reply for
> WHOIS as specified by the RFC).
> 
> Soooo, if you want to do more with the output, you have to hook
> into said hook, your function should accept two arguments, PROC
> (the process being received from), and PARSED (the actual
> response).  Hope that sort of helps.

Thank you for your help. I will try it.

Regards,

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