[Erc-help] Re: Newbie questions

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

J. David Boyd writes:
> > > > - 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!)
> > 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?

Yes, I use /JOIN. 

> 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.

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