[Erc-help] No settings of .ercrc.el applied for the first connect

[Tassilo H. <hei...@un...>]

Hi,

I wanna use erc (the one bundled with emacs 22.0.50.1) and so I've set
up this ~/.ercrc.el:

,----[ ~/.ercrc.el ]
| (setq erc-nick "tsdh"
|       erc-user-full-name user-full-name
|       erc-prompt-for-password nil)
| (setq erc-prompt-for-nickserv-password nil)
| (setq erc-nickserv-passwords
|       '((freenode (("tsdh" . "xxx")
|                    ("tsdh_" . "xxx")
|                    ("_tsdh_" . "xxx")))))
`----

The problem is that when I start up emacs and type

    M-x erc-server-select RET freenode RET

I can connect to freenode, but my nickname is not "tsdh" as it should
be, but "heimdall" which is my username and I don't identify at
NickServ.

After the connection is up all variables set in ~/.ercrc.el have the
values I defined there. The file simply seems to be loaded too late.

Here's what the *Messages* buffer says:

,----[ *Messages* ]
| Loading erc-networks...done
| Connecting to irc.freenode.net:ircd... ...done
| Logging in as 'heimdall'...
| Logging in without password
| Loading smiley...
| Loading regexp-opt...done
| Loading smiley...done
| Logging in as 'heimdall'... done
| Loading ~/.ercrc.el (source)...done
`----

If I do a /QUIT and connect again all works fine this time.

So how can I get erc to first load its config file before connecting?

Kind regards,
Tassilo