[Erc-help] Re: Newbie questions

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

> J. David Boyd 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!)
> > > 
> > 
> > I just got this the other day from a user here, as I had the same
> > question.  Put this in your .emacs, and change the key definition to
> > something you like:
> > 
> > (fset 'ClearERC [?\C-p ?\C-e ?\C-  ?\M-< ?\C-w ?\M->])
> > (global-set-key (kbd "C-c C-x C-c") 'ClearERC)
> > 
> > I run this with point right after the ERC prompt.  It goes up a line,
> > moves to the end of the line, sets the point, moves to the beginning
> > of the buffer, kills the region, and moves to the end of the buffer
> 
> 
> Well, it works once, but thereafter, erc inserted some read-only text
> and it does not work anymore:
> 
> After 0 kbd macro iterations: byte-code: Text is read-only: #<buffer #lisp>
> 

Ah, this is because you have more than one ERC prompt in the buffer.

You are joining other groups by using "/JOIN #YADDA", correct?

Use C-c C-j instead, and it won't write any extra ERC prompt into the
current buffer.  

ERC prompts are read-only, and, as you've found out, won't be erased
by the above macro.

Dave