[Erc-help] Re: [PATCH] (erc-process-sentinel): add customizable option to close server buffers automatically, code cleanup

[lawrence m. <we...@gm...>]

Michael Olson wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 13:11:53 +0100, lawrence mitchell wrote:

>> Why does let-binding (I assume that's what you're doing)
>> inhibit-read-only to t not allow reconnection.  That sounds like
>> a deeper problem, but, without looking, I'm not really sure.

> I think this is a problem with Emacs from CVS.  I never experienced
> that problem with Emacs 21.3 .  I'm thinking about reporting this
> problem to the emacs-devel list.  XEmacs handled an attempt to kill
> read-only text by refusing to do it, even though the buffer had the
> inhibit-read-only flag set.

If this is indeed the case, then I think we probably want to
report it as an Emacs bug, rather than use work-arounds in ERC.
However, I see that you no longer use this method (due to the
problems it causes) --- is the new code "neater" than the old
buggy stuff?

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