Re: [Erc-help] Newbie questions

[Damien E. <er...@re...>]

"Pascal J.Bourguignon" <pj...@in...> writes:

> Hello, 
>
> I'm a new user of erc, and I have a couple of questions:
>
> - how to erase (/clean) a channel buffer?  erase-buffer complains for
>   read-only text. For now, the only solution I have is /leave and
>   /join #channel. (And I mean really removing all the buffer contents,
>   not jumping down!)

Try this:

(defun erc-cmd-CLEAR ()
  (interactive)
  (save-buffer)
  (save-excursion
    (let ((inhibit-read-only t))
      (beginning-of-line)
      (delete-region 1 (point)))))

If you have logging enabled, it'll ensure it's saved in the log before
deleting it from the screen. Remove the save-buffer line if you don't
want that.

> - the answers to /msg commands given in a #channel buffer go to the
>   server buffer.  How can one get them in the #channel buffer where
>   the /msg command was given?

I don't think erc supports this by default. but you can make messages
pop up in a separate buffer easily. c-h v erc-auto-query

Cheers,

Damien