Re: [PATCH] rcirc: support TLS/SSL and arbitrary connection method

[Deniz Dogan]

On 2011-05-31 14:16, Julien Danjou wrote:
> On Tue, May 31 2011, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
> > > The last 2 chunks of the patch are meant to strip the IRC colors.
> > > Not really part of the "connection" patch, but IMHO useful.
> > Could you describe a bit more what this is about (I'm not a regular IRC
> > user)?  I can't remember seeing those C-c escape sequences, when do they
> > appear, what are they expected to do?  Should we really strip them, or
> > would it be even better to turn them into faces?
> C-c are escape code for colors. I think they came with mIRC first, but
> well, I don't know for sure.
>
> See: http://www.mirc.com/colors.html
>
> I don't think they should be stripped, but they should be rendered using
> faces as you suggest. And this probably be configurable with a
> defcustom.

For what it's worth, EmacsWiki has rcirc-controls.el: 
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/rcirc-controls.el ...it has a few issues 
if I remember correctly, mainly poor performance. The processing will be 
very noticeable when dealing with messages with many control codes.

Another thing I'd really like to have in rcirc is the ability to use M-o 
to put some colors and other effects which are then translated to 
control codes when sent.

/Deniz