Re: [Erc-help] Newbie questions

[Pascal J.B. <pj...@in...>]

Damien Elmes writes:
> "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)))))

Thank you. This works well.
 
> 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


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