[Erc-discuss] Re: default value of `url-irc-function'

[Michael Olson]

Romain Francoise <address@hidden> writes:

> Well, I tried your function and it's better since it doesn't open a
> new IRC connection each time as mine does...

That looks like a win.

> but it calls
> `erc-buffer-filter' which isn't autoloaded: if the user customizes
> `url-irc-function' to point to ERC but doesn't actually require erc
> in the startup files, browsing doesn't work.  My function uses
> `erc-select', so it doesn't have that problem.

> I'm not a big fan of having require calls in functions...

Would something like this work?

url-irc.el:

(defun url-irc-erc (host port channel user password)
  (erc-handle-irc-url host port channel user password))

erc.el (function moved here from erc-goodies.el):

;;;###autoload
(defun erc-handle-irc-url (host port channel user password)
  "Use ERC to IRC on HOST:PORT in CHANNEL as USER with PASSWORD. ..."
  ... [rest of function])

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