[Erc-help] Minor refactoring, (lack of) documentation progress

[Michael O. <mw...@gn...>]

It looks like Monday was a over-ambitious estimate for beginning the
ERC documentation process.  Wednesday Aug 31 should work better.  I'll
probably be off-line until then because of a new apartment and the
start of class.

In the meantime, I've done some work on moving more server-related
functions from erc.el to erc-backend.el.  This work is available at my
erc--more-backend--0 Arch branch, or at
http://www.mwolson.org/static/dist/erc-more-backend-latest.tar.gz,
which is updated automatically at every commit.

I've kept the ChangeLog for this branch up-to-date.  A lot of minor
whitespace/indentation changes were made -- those aren't mentioned.
I'd love it if people could try this and let me know if it breaks
anything, since it will almost certainly be merged back upstream once
I'm certain that it's stable.

I've also tried to fold in a few Circe features to this branch,
especially improved (non-dropping) flood control.  I'm trying to work
with forcer to figure out ways for ERC and Circe to share common
functionality and get along in general without sacrificing existing
ERC functionality or breaking too many configuration setups.

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