[Erc-discuss] Re: autoconnecting to servers

[Michael Olson]

Angelina Carlton <address@hidden> writes:

> Thanks Andreas (and Andrea also) 
> Erc now connects to networks and auto-joins channels like I had hoped :-) 
> There is one network that causes me a problem, irc.arstechnica.com, I
> have commented it out in my-erc.el (http://bzgirl.org/conf/my-erc.el)
> because it doesn't connect the first try and then retries over and over,
> so fast that emacs crashes and dumps core! 

> I don't know why this is, if manually connect with erc-select it works
> just fine.

Is this problem fixed now?  I tried to address this in the development
version of ERC.  The changes should be making their way to Emacs 22
next week, if you use that version.

> As for the rest of the networks and channels everything is good, thanks
> for the help.

I notice that you use some networks that ERC didn't know about
previously, so I added support for them.  So now, the following should
work as expected.

(setq erc-nickserv-passwords
      '((freenode   (("orchid" . "PASSWORD")
                     ("bzg" . "PASSWORD")))
        (LinuxChix  (("orchid" . "PASSWORD")))
        (Ars        (("orchid" . "PASSWORD")))
        (OFTC       (("orchid" . "PASSWORD")))))

Also, depending on your preferences, it might be easier to do M-x
customize-option erc-modules RET instead of calling each individual
one.  Or you could even just do something like the following, if you
prefer using setq to the customize interface.

(add-to-list 'erc-modules 'track)
(add-to-list 'erc-modules 'pcomplete)
         ; or 'complete, if using the version bundled with Emacs 22
(add-to-list 'erc-modules 'netsplit)
(add-to-list 'erc-modules 'ring)
(add-to-list 'erc-modules 'fill)
(add-to-list 'erc-modules 'autojoin)
(add-to-list 'erc-modules 'services)

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