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

[Adrian A. <ad...@xe...>]

Michael Olson <mw...@gn...> writes:

> 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.

Is this not a candidate for the 5.1 branch as well?

Looks look a real usage problem from Nelson's description.

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