[Erc-discuss] suggestion: have erc-cmd-IGNORE regexp-quote the supplied name

[Eric Hanchrow]

Often I want to ignore someone whose nick happens to contain
characters that are special in regular expressions.  For example,
someone's nick was something like

        idiot[abcd]

and I ignored him; I was alarmed to continue to see messages from him,
until I realized that I was not actually ignoring the string
"idiot[abcd]", but rather the four strings

        idiota
        idiotb
        idiotc
        idiotd

So I made this tiny hack.

I suspect this will bite people who are used to typing in actual
regular expressions; I can't think of a nice way to provide both
behaviors.

Anyway it's something to think about.

--- orig/lisp/erc/erc.el
+++ mod/lisp/erc/erc.el
@@ -2507,6 +2507,8 @@
 (defun erc-cmd-IGNORE (&optional user)
   "Ignore USER.  This should be a regexp matching address@hidden
 If no USER argument is specified, list the contents of `erc-ignore-list'."
+  (when user
+    (setq user (regexp-quote user)))
   (if user
       (progn
        (erc-display-line

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