[Erc-help] mode-line handling changed in erc.el revision 1.711

[disumu <ds...@mu...>]

Hi all,

The last change made to `erc-mode-line-format' (in revision 1.706)
caused an error to occur in Xemacs when loading erc.el.  It can't/won't
handle #(" "...) strings.

I tried using `propertize' instead of strings like the one above, but
then some parts of the mode-line didn't work at all (for example, lots
of dashes were missing).  So I ended up making ERC work with the
existing mode-line, only changing the values of
`mode-line-buffer-identification' and `mode-line-process'.  That's the
way many other programs do things as well.

Note that if you've set `erc-mode-line-format' or
`erc-header-line-format' to something other than the default, you'll
need to change the value to a string that will work with
`format-spec'. The docstring for `erc-mode-line-format' has a list of
the characters which are replaced.

--
disumu