[Erc-help] Re: [PATCH] erc-bbdb usability fix.

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

Nelson Ferreira <nel...@ie...> writes:

> This is probably the proper place to send this patch...
>
> From:  Nelson Ferreira <nel...@ie...>
> Subject: [PATCH] erc-bbdb usability fix.
> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta, gmane.emacs.xemacs.patches
> Cc: xem...@xe...
> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:12:16 -0500
> Organization: - none -
>
> Hi all,
>
> I suppose I must be one of the very few using BBDB with erc, because
> by default the erc-bbdb package exhibits a veryu annoying behavior I
> find hard to believe people like:
>      * When showing the BBDB popup, the BBDB buffer is electric which
>        means that it captures the keyboard "focus"  and basically
>        prevents updates to the channel buffer.
>      * Specially annoying when a lot of the people in the channel are
>        known to you and you are joining.
>
> The patch adds a customize option to control this behavior (I think
> off is the right default, but feel free to put it as t for backwards
> compatibility.)
>
> With erc-bbdb-electric-p set to nil, the bbdb buffer is no longer
> electric and it does not block progress.

Thanks!  I have now included this with the development version of ERC.

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