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ab422c4d | 3 | Copyright (C) 2006-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
5b87ad55 | 4 | See the end of the file for license conditions. |
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7858872b | 6 | * For changes after ERC 5.3, see the main Emacs NEWS file |
65f18635 | 7 | |
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8 | * Changes in ERC 5.3 |
9 | ||
10 | ** New function `erc-tls' is to be used for connecting to a server via TLS. | |
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11 | It requires the tls.el library. |
12 | ||
13 | ** The function `erc-ssl' will now always use ssl.el, even in the version | |
14 | of ERC that comes with Emacs. | |
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16 | ** Type `C-u' before `C-c C-j' to prompt for a channel key |
17 | `erc-join-channel' now accepts a prefix-argument to prompt for the key | |
18 | when channels are protected by keywords. | |
19 | ||
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20 | ** ERC will now automatically determine which nick prefixes are valid |
21 | when joining a server. | |
22 | ||
23 | ** Figure out which directory contains startup files when looking for | |
24 | .erc.el. For Emacs this is usually ~/.emacs.d, and for XEmacs this is | |
25 | usually ~/.xemacs. | |
26 | ||
27 | ** Fix bug with view-mode when running erc-toggle-debug-irc-protocol. | |
28 | ||
29 | ** Permit several commands to be run even when the server connection is dead. | |
30 | This includes /CLEAR, /COUNTRY, /HELP, /LASTLOG, /QUIT, /GQUIT, | |
31 | /RECONNECT, /SERVER, and /SET. | |
32 | ||
33 | ** Make /RECONNECT work better when the server connection is dead. | |
34 | Also, handle case where the server buffer has been killed. | |
35 | ||
36 | ** Better handle interaction with /RECONNECT and indefinite reconnect | |
37 | attempts. Display message which tells the user that they can stop the | |
38 | reconnect attempts by killing the server buffer. | |
39 | ||
40 | ** New option `erc-reuse-frames' determines whether new frames are always | |
41 | created. It defaults to not creating a new frame for an ERC buffer if | |
42 | there is already a window displaying it. This only has an effect when | |
43 | the `erc-join-buffer' option is set to 'frame. | |
44 | ||
45 | ** New command /ME'S handles the case where someone types "/me's" in an | |
46 | ERC buffer. It concatenates the text " 's" to the beginning of the | |
47 | input and then sends the result like a normal /ME command. | |
48 | ||
49 | ** Fix bug where some messages were being sent to the server too soon. | |
50 | In the past, this may have resulted in strange problems like seeing | |
51 | the connection attempt stall, which may have especially affected | |
52 | spotty or traffic-shaped connections. | |
53 | ||
54 | ** Handle 307 (nick has identified) responses from the server. | |
55 | ||
56 | ** Display a less-confusing message if the connection attempt fails. | |
57 | ||
58 | ** On a tty, make sure that notices are displayed in blue rather than pink. | |
59 | ||
60 | ** By default, open query buffers that are initiated by others in a new | |
61 | unselected window. This may be changed by customizing the | |
62 | `erc-auto-query' option. This should make ERC more friendly to new | |
63 | users. | |
64 | ||
65 | ** New option `erc-query-display' indicates how to display a query buffer | |
66 | that is made using the /QUERY command. The default is to display the | |
67 | query in a new selected window. | |
68 | ||
69 | ** By default, display network name rather than server name in the modeline. | |
70 | This should ERC use less space in the modeline. To get the old | |
71 | behavior back, set `erc-mode-line-format' to "%s %a". | |
72 | ||
73 | ** New option `erc-remove-parsed-property' determines whether to remove | |
74 | the 'erc-parsed property. This should save some memory in channels | |
75 | with large amounts of text on screen. It is enabled by default. | |
76 | ||
77 | ** Modules newly enabled by default | |
78 | ||
79 | *** move-to-prompt: Move to the prompt when typing text. | |
80 | *** networks: Provide data about IRC networks. | |
81 | ||
82 | ** New formatting variables allowed in `erc-format-network': | |
83 | ||
84 | *** `%N': the name of the network. | |
85 | *** `%S': much like %s, but let the network name trump the server name. | |
86 | ||
87 | ** Compatibility with old releases | |
88 | ||
89 | *** In `erc-server-coding-system' and `erc-coding-system-for-target', pass | |
90 | the `target' argument as the first and only argument to the function | |
91 | named by these options. | |
92 | ||
93 | *** In `erc-track-faces-priority-list', permit list entries to be lists of | |
94 | faces. This can be used to differentiate between, for example, | |
95 | buttons in default text and buttons in notices. | |
96 | ||
97 | *** The `erc-assert' function has been removed in favor of using `assert' | |
98 | from cl-macs.el. | |
99 | ||
100 | *** If your application uses the 'erc-parsed text property outside of | |
101 | the insert hooks, you will need to set `erc-remove-parsed-property' | |
102 | to nil. | |
103 | ||
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104 | ** Changes and additions to modules |
105 | ||
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106 | *** BBDB (erc-bbdb.el) |
107 | ||
108 | **** Work around bug in XEmacs 21.4 that causes an error to be thrown when | |
109 | the first argument to `run-at-time' is nil. | |
110 | ||
111 | *** Button (erc-button.el) | |
112 | ||
113 | **** Recognize parentheses that are part of URLs. | |
114 | ||
115 | **** When in a channel, only buttonize nicks from that channel. | |
116 | ||
117 | *** DCC support (erc-dcc.el) | |
118 | ||
119 | **** Turn this into the "dcc" module for ERC, so that it can be more | |
120 | easily enabled. | |
121 | ||
122 | **** New option `erc-dcc-listen-host' determines which IP address to listen | |
123 | on for outside connection attempts. | |
124 | ||
125 | **** New option `erc-dcc-public-host' determines which IP address to advertise | |
126 | when sending a file. This is useful for people who are on a local | |
127 | subnet. Together, these two options replace the `erc-dcc-host' | |
128 | option. | |
129 | ||
130 | **** New option `erc-dcc-receive-cache' indicates how much of a received | |
131 | file to store in an Emacs buffer before flushing it to disk. The | |
132 | default is 0.5 MB. | |
133 | ||
134 | **** Save only parts of received files in buffers, writing repeatedly to | |
135 | disk after we get at least `erc-dcc-receive-cache' bytes. This allows | |
136 | users to receive very large files without running out of memory. | |
137 | ||
138 | **** Rename `erc-verbose-dcc' option to `erc-dcc-verbose' and also | |
139 | default it to nil. | |
140 | ||
141 | **** Fix edge case in erc-dcc-send-sentinel. | |
142 | ||
143 | **** If client confirms too much, then display byte count and kill the | |
144 | file buffer. | |
145 | ||
146 | *** Goodies (erc-goodies.el) | |
147 | ||
148 | **** New module move-to-prompt causes the point to be moved to the prompt | |
149 | if a user tries to type elsewhere in the buffer, and then inserts | |
150 | their keystrokes after the prompt. It is enabled by default. | |
151 | ||
152 | **** New module keep-place keeps your place in unvisited ERC buffers | |
153 | when new messages arrive. | |
154 | ||
155 | **** Enable scroll-to-bottom in all ERC buffers when the module is enabled, | |
156 | rather than having the user do it manually. | |
157 | ||
158 | **** Fix bug with buffer ordering and scroll-to-bottom module. | |
159 | ||
160 | **** In the unmorse module, handle the morse code style that has "/ " at | |
161 | the end of every letter. | |
162 | ||
163 | *** Identd (erc-identd.el) | |
164 | ||
165 | **** Fix bad behavior when closing the identd process. | |
166 | ||
167 | *** Channel lists (erc-list.el) | |
168 | ||
169 | **** Replace the old module with a rewritten one, so that we can include | |
170 | it with Emacs. The old version of erc-list.el has been renamed to | |
171 | erc-list-old.el, and is available as the list-old module. | |
172 | ||
173 | The new version does not yet have support for XEmacs. | |
174 | ||
175 | **** Don't display lots of output in the server buffer when running /LIST. | |
176 | ||
177 | *** Logging (erc-log.el) | |
178 | ||
179 | **** Permit the `erc-log-channels-directory' option to be set to a function | |
180 | name. This makes it easier to write custom functions that determine | |
181 | where log files should be placed. | |
182 | ||
183 | **** New option `erc-log-filter-function' specifies the function to call | |
184 | for filtering text before writing it to a log file. By default, no | |
185 | filtering is performed. | |
186 | ||
187 | *** Networks (erc-networks.el) | |
188 | ||
189 | **** Turn this into the "networks" module for ERC, so that it can be more | |
190 | easily enabled. Enable it by default. | |
191 | ||
192 | **** Add support for Rizon. | |
193 | ||
194 | *** Internet services / Nickserv (erc-services.el) | |
195 | ||
196 | **** New hook option `erc-nickserv-identified-hook' is run after NickServ | |
197 | acknowledges a successful identification. | |
198 | ||
199 | **** Add support for the GRnet and Rizon networks. | |
200 | ||
201 | *** Timestamps (erc-stamp.el) | |
202 | ||
203 | **** By default, place timestamps on both the left and the right. | |
204 | The left timestamps appear once a day, and the right timestamps appear | |
205 | once a minute when new messages arrive. To change this, customize the | |
206 | `erc-insert-timestamp-function' and | |
207 | `erc-insert-away-timestamp-function' options. | |
208 | ||
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209 | *** Channel tracking (erc-track.el) |
210 | ||
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211 | **** If `erc-track-position-in-mode-line' is set to nil, the tracking |
212 | information won't be shown in the mode line, which is a change from | |
213 | the previous behavior of showing it "After all other information". | |
214 | ||
215 | If this variable is set to t, then the information will be added to | |
216 | the very end of the mode line. | |
217 | ||
218 | **** New option `erc-track-remove-disconnected-buffers' controls whether | |
219 | buffers associated with a server that is disconnected should be | |
220 | removed from the modified buffers list. The default is to keep them | |
221 | in the list. | |
222 | ||
223 | **** New hook option `erc-track-list-changed-hook' is run whenever the | |
224 | contents of the modified channels list changes. It is useful for | |
225 | people who use a separate mechanism to provide notification of channel | |
226 | activity. | |
227 | ||
228 | **** The `erc-track-switch-direction' option now can be set to the value | |
229 | 'importance. If set to this value, ERC will switch to channels in | |
230 | order of importance, which is determined by the position of the | |
231 | channel's face in `erc-track-faces-priority-list'. | |
232 | ||
233 | **** Activate erc-track-minor-mode earlier in the connection process. | |
234 | ||
235 | **** Don't track buttons in notices. | |
236 | ||
237 | **** Get a rough idea for which channels are currently active by | |
238 | switching between several normal conversation faces in the modeline. | |
239 | This behavior can be modified by changing the new | |
240 | `erc-track-faces-normal-list' option. | |
241 | ||
242 | **** Ignore display of who set the default channel topic and listing of | |
243 | users on the current channel. Customize the `erc-track-exclude-types' | |
244 | option to indicate the types of messages to exclude. These two | |
245 | message types are "333" and "353", respectively. | |
246 | ||
247 | *** Support for acting as an XDCC file-server (erc-xdcc.el) | |
248 | ||
249 | **** Turn this into the "xdcc" module for ERC, so that it can be more | |
250 | easily enabled. | |
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253 | |
254 | ** M-x erc RET now starts ERC. | |
255 | `erc-select' has been changed to `erc'. `erc-select' still remains as | |
256 | an alias of `erc'. Likewise, `erc-select-ssl' has been renamed to | |
257 | `erc-ssl' with `erc-select-ssl' as its alias. The function that was | |
258 | known as `erc' is now `erc-open'. | |
259 | ||
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260 | ** Open query buffers by default when private messages are received. |
261 | The default value of `erc-auto-query' has been changed to 'bury. | |
262 | ||
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263 | ** New command: /RECONNECT |
264 | This command tries to reconnect to the current IRC server exactly | |
265 | once. It does not work in server buffers (throws an error before the | |
266 | command is run), but works in query and channel buffers. | |
267 | ||
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268 | ** In MS-DOS environments, look for _ercrc.el rather than .ercrc.el. |
269 | ||
270 | ** Fix buggy interaction with multi-tty Emacs. | |
271 | ||
272 | ** After running /QUIT, make sure that the IRC process is killed within | |
273 | 4 seconds. Freenode, in particular, needs this at times. | |
274 | ||
275 | ** If the IRC process has not responded to our PINGs within a certain | |
276 | time, kill it and restart the connection. See | |
277 | `erc-server-auto-reconnect', `erc-server-reconnect-attempts', | |
278 | `erc-server-reconnect-timeout', `erc-server-send-ping-interval', and | |
279 | `erc-server-send-ping-timeout' to fine-tune ERC's behavior. | |
280 | ||
281 | ** Avoid getting into an infinite connection loop. | |
282 | Previously, this could happen if your nick was banned, you were using | |
283 | Tor, incorrect information was entered, or the connection was bad. | |
284 | ||
285 | ** Make ban messages less confusing. | |
286 | ||
287 | ** Restore the point correctly when reconnecting to an IRC server. | |
288 | ||
289 | ** Make /IGNORE and /UNIGNORE prompt to determine whether their | |
290 | argument is a user or a regexp. This results in less-confusing | |
291 | behavior when trying to ignore someone who has a bracket in their | |
292 | nick. | |
293 | ||
294 | ** Make the default port "6667" rather than "ircd", because some | |
295 | operating systems don't know what port "ircd" maps to. | |
296 | ||
297 | ** Fix several bugs in erc-iswitchb (C-c C-b). | |
298 | ||
299 | ** Clean up internal documentation. | |
300 | Special thanks go to Juanma Barranquero for the thorough vetting of | |
301 | ERC's internal documentation. | |
302 | ||
303 | ** Display a more informative message when a module is not found. | |
304 | ||
305 | ** Fix a bug where paths were being colored like IRC commands. | |
306 | ||
307 | ** In the customize interface for `erc-modules', add the name of the module. | |
308 | This makes it easier to find modules by name. | |
309 | ||
310 | ** erc-server-send-ping-interval: Change to use a default of 30 seconds. | |
311 | ||
312 | ** Some files which are included with the release of ERC 5.2 will not | |
313 | appear in the version of ERC that is bundled with Emacs 22. These | |
314 | extras files may be found at: | |
315 | ||
316 | o http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/erc/erc-5.2-extras.tar.gz, or | |
317 | o http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/erc/erc-5.2-extras.zip. | |
318 | ||
319 | ** Renamed files | |
320 | ||
321 | Several files were renamed so as to make them distinct to users of the | |
322 | MS-DOS operating system. | |
323 | ||
324 | o erc-autojoin.el -> erc-join.el | |
325 | o erc-complete.el -> erc-hecomplete.el | |
326 | o erc-nickserv.el -> erc-services.el | |
327 | o ChangeLog.NNNN -> ChangeLog.NN | |
328 | ||
329 | ** Header line changes | |
330 | ||
331 | *** Remove "[IRC]" from the header line. | |
332 | ||
333 | *** Add the %l format character to `erc-header-line-format', | |
334 | ||
335 | *** Document how to remove the header line. | |
336 | Namely: (setq erc-header-line-format nil). | |
337 | ||
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338 | ** New options |
339 | ||
340 | *** erc-server-reconnect-attempts: Determines the number of | |
341 | reconnection attempts that ERC will make per server. | |
342 | ||
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343 | *** erc-server-reconnect-timeout: Determines the amount of time, |
344 | in seconds, that ERC will wait between successive reconnect attempts. | |
345 | ||
346 | *** erc-server-send-ping-timeout: Determines when to consider a connection | |
347 | stalled and restart it. The default is after 120 seconds. | |
348 | ||
349 | *** erc-system-name: Determines the system name to use when logging in. | |
350 | The default is to figure this out by calling `system-name'. | |
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352 | ** New face: `erc-my-nick-face' |
353 | This helps make it easier to distinguish messages sent by yourself | |
354 | from messages sent by other users when the value of the variable | |
355 | `erc-show-my-nick' is non-nil. | |
356 | ||
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357 | ** Namespace changes |
358 | ||
359 | *** New macro: `erc-with-server-buffer' | |
360 | Switches to the current ERC server buffer and runs some code. If no | |
361 | server buffer is available, return nil. This is a useful way to | |
362 | access variables in the server buffer. | |
363 | ||
364 | *** New function: `erc-open-server-buffer-p' | |
365 | Returns non-nil if the given buffer is an ERC server buffer that has | |
366 | an open IRC process. | |
367 | ||
368 | *** New function: `erc-format-lag-time' | |
369 | Returns the estimated lag time to server, `erc-server-lag'. | |
370 | ||
371 | *** Renamed items | |
372 | ||
373 | o `erc-server-setup-periodical-server-ping' is now | |
374 | `erc-server-setup-periodical-ping' | |
375 | ||
376 | o `erc-away-p' is now `erc-away-time' | |
377 | ||
378 | ** Changes to the ERC manual | |
379 | ||
380 | *** New section: Sample Session. | |
381 | Describes a sample ERC session for connecting to the #emacs channel on | |
382 | Freenode. Also mention the #erc channel. | |
383 | ||
384 | *** New section: Special Features. | |
385 | Describes some of the special features of ERC. | |
386 | ||
387 | *** Getting Started: Mention ~/.emacs.d/.ercrc.el and the Customize | |
388 | interface. | |
389 | ||
390 | *** Development: Mention ErcDevelopment page on emacswiki.org. | |
391 | ||
392 | *** Tips and Tricks: Remove empty section for now. | |
393 | ||
394 | *** Options: Mention how to see available ERC options. | |
395 | ||
396 | *** Sample Configuration: Add an example of how to configure ERC. | |
397 | ||
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398 | ** New modules |
399 | ||
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400 | *** Autoaway (erc-autoaway.el) |
401 | ||
402 | **** Make this much more reliable. | |
403 | ||
404 | **** Avoid duplicate messages when coming back from being away. | |
405 | ||
406 | **** Fix bug where autoaway was enabled just by loading the file. | |
407 | ||
408 | *** BBDB (erc-bbdb.el) | |
409 | ||
410 | **** Display information on how to cancel merging of info or how to | |
411 | create a new John Doe record. | |
412 | ||
413 | **** Make it so that information from /whois continues to come in, even | |
414 | while prompting for a record to merge. | |
415 | ||
416 | **** Make hitting C-g correctly abort merging the record. | |
417 | ||
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418 | *** Capab identify (erc-capab.el) |
419 | Mark users who haven't identified to NickServ on servers supporting | |
420 | CAPAB IDENTIFY-MSG. | |
421 | ||
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422 | ** Changes and additions to modules |
423 | ||
ff59d266 | 424 | *** Button (erc-button.el) |
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ff59d266 | 426 | **** Make <backtab> go to the previous button. |
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428 | *** Channel tracking (erc-track.el) |
429 | ||
430 | **** Use mouse-face and help-echo for channel names in the mode-line. | |
431 | This helps people using a mouse know that they are buttons and can be | |
432 | clicked on. | |
433 | ||
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434 | **** Fix issue where C-c C-SPC could conflict with user-defined keybindings. |
435 | This is accomplished by moving these bindings to their own global | |
436 | minor mode. Now the default is to check whether the user has bound | |
437 | something to C-c C-SPC or C-c C-@. If they have, prompt them about | |
438 | whether to really override that binding. This also has the effect of | |
439 | preventing ERC from clobbering rcirc's keybinding, unless this is | |
440 | desired. See `erc-track-enable-keybindings' for more details. | |
441 | ||
442 | **** New option: erc-track-enable-keybindings. | |
443 | Determine whether or not to enable the C-c C-SPC and C-c C-@ | |
444 | keybindings. The default is to ask whether to do this if a binding to | |
445 | these keys already exists. It can also be set to t or nil to always | |
446 | bind or never bind, respectively. | |
447 | ||
448 | **** Remove `track-when-inactive' module. | |
449 | See `erc-track-when-inactive' for further details. | |
450 | ||
451 | **** New option: erc-track-when-inactive. | |
452 | This option replaces the track-when-inactive module. Set it to | |
453 | non-nil to track activity even in visible buffers when inactive. The | |
454 | default is nil. | |
455 | ||
456 | **** Remove the `track-modified-channels' alias for the `track' module. | |
457 | ||
458 | *** DCC support (erc-dcc.el) | |
459 | ||
460 | **** Add Usage section to Commentary. | |
461 | ||
462 | **** Fix a bug in the server message output. | |
463 | ||
464 | *** Filling (erc-fill.el) | |
465 | ||
466 | **** Fix bug involving messages that start with one or more blank lines. | |
467 | ||
468 | *** Identd (erc-identd.el) | |
469 | ||
470 | **** New option `erc-identd-port' | |
471 | Specifies the port to use if none is given as an argument to | |
472 | `erc-identd-start'. This is placed in the new customization group | |
473 | `erc-identd'. | |
474 | ||
475 | **** New function: `erc-identd-quickstart' | |
476 | Ignores any arguments and calls `erc-identd-start'. | |
477 | ||
478 | *** Channel lists (erc-list.el) | |
479 | ||
480 | **** Enable by default, except in the version of ERC bundled with Emacs 22. | |
481 | ||
482 | *** Logging (erc-log.el) | |
483 | ||
484 | **** Make sure filenames are safe to use before writing to them. | |
485 | ||
486 | **** Save all log buffers when exiting Emacs. | |
487 | ||
488 | **** erc-generate-log-file-name-function: Add option for | |
489 | `erc-generate-log-file-name-network', which is a new function that | |
490 | uses the network name rather than the server name when possible. | |
491 | ||
492 | *** Menu (erc-menu.el) | |
493 | ||
494 | **** Name the menu "ERC" instead of "IRC" to avoid confusion with rcirc | |
495 | and other clients. | |
496 | ||
497 | **** Make this into a proper module and load it by default. | |
498 | ||
499 | **** Add "Current channel" submenu. | |
500 | ||
501 | *** Networks (erc-networks.el) | |
502 | ||
503 | **** Add support for Ars OpenIRC, LinuxChix, and OFTC networks. | |
504 | ||
505 | **** Escape periods in Konfido.Net and Kewl.Org. | |
506 | ||
507 | *** Internet services / Nickserv (erc-nickserv.el) | |
508 | ||
509 | **** Add new 'both method for the `erc-nickserv-identify-mode' option | |
510 | and make it the default. This tries to do the right thing both when a | |
511 | known nickserv message exists for an IRC network, and when it does | |
512 | not. | |
513 | ||
514 | **** Support nickserv authentication on OFTC, Azzurra, Ars, and QuakeNet. | |
515 | ||
516 | **** Support authentication on BitlBee. | |
517 | ||
518 | **** Make source code easier to understand by using accessor functions. | |
519 | ||
520 | *** Sound support (erc-sound.el) | |
521 | ||
522 | **** Make this work with both Emacs 21 and Emacs 22. | |
523 | ||
524 | *** Timestamps (erc-stamp.el) | |
525 | ||
526 | **** Exclude the newline from the erc-timestamp field. | |
527 | ||
528 | **** New function: `erc-toggle-timestamps'. | |
529 | Toggles display of timestamps. | |
530 | ||
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531 | * Changes in ERC 5.1.4 |
532 | ||
533 | ** Make find-function and find-variable work in Emacs 22 for | |
534 | names that are constructed by `define-erc-module'. | |
535 | ||
536 | ** Fix bug introduced in ERC 5.1.3 that caused messages to go the | |
537 | wrong buffer. | |
538 | ||
539 | ** Changes and additions to modules | |
540 | ||
541 | *** Highlighting (erc-match.el) | |
542 | ||
543 | **** Don't activate view-mode. | |
544 | ||
545 | *** Logging (erc-log.el) | |
546 | ||
547 | **** When this module is activated, make sure logging is enabled on | |
548 | already-opened buffers. Ditto for disabling logging when the module | |
549 | is deactivated. | |
550 | ||
551 | **** Fix some errors that occur when exiting Emacs without first | |
552 | quitting open IRC servers. | |
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554 | * Changes in ERC 5.1.3 |
555 | ||
556 | ** Fix use of /quote command with no initial whitespace. | |
557 | ||
558 | ** Make it possible to customize the colorization of the header line. | |
559 | The `erc-header-line' face is used to color the header line. | |
560 | The `erc-header-line-face-method' determines the method to use when | |
561 | colorizing the header line. | |
562 | ||
563 | ** Add the new function `erc-handle-irc-url', which is a suitable | |
564 | candidate to use for `url-irc-function'. This permits some | |
565 | integration of url.el and ERC. | |
566 | ||
567 | ** Fix several errors that occur when server or channel buffers are killed | |
568 | prematurely. | |
569 | ||
570 | ** Fix toggling of flood control. | |
571 | ||
572 | ** Match the patterns in `erc-encoding-coding-alist' as regexps, | |
573 | instead of verbatim text. Also, match case-insensitively. | |
574 | ||
575 | ** The /SMV command has been removed, since we no longer have | |
576 | meaningful module-specific version information. | |
577 | ||
578 | ** Fix a "(stringp nil)" error that can happen when doing /PART. | |
579 | ||
580 | ** Use a better example in the `erc-part-reason-various-alist' | |
581 | documentation. | |
582 | ||
583 | ** When using `erc-quit-reason-various' and `erc-part-reason-various' | |
584 | and no matches are found, default to using the ERC version string | |
585 | rather than "nil". | |
586 | ||
587 | ** Add the `list' and `page' modules to the `erc-modules' customize | |
588 | interface. | |
589 | ||
590 | ** Changes to the ERC manual | |
591 | ||
592 | *** Update the list of available modules. | |
593 | ||
594 | *** Revise information about releases and development. | |
595 | ||
596 | *** Provide a simpler example in the "Getting Started" chapter. | |
597 | ||
598 | *** Fully document how to connect to an IRC server in the new | |
599 | "Connecting" chapter. | |
600 | ||
601 | ** Changes and additions to modules | |
602 | ||
603 | *** Autoaway (erc-autoaway.el) | |
604 | ||
605 | **** Rename the `erc-autoaway-use-emacs-idle' option to | |
606 | `erc-autoaway-idle-method'. | |
607 | ||
608 | **** Add support for autoaway based on user idle time. | |
609 | This is now the default. | |
610 | ||
611 | **** If you set the AWAY status yourself, erc-autoaway will not | |
612 | interfere by un-setting AWAY prematurely. | |
613 | ||
614 | **** If you are set away while visiting a non-ERC buffer, | |
615 | erc-autoaway used to fail in bringing the user back. This is now | |
616 | fixed. | |
617 | ||
618 | *** BBDB (erc-bbdb.el) | |
619 | ||
620 | **** Add new option `erc-bbdb-electric-p', which determines whether | |
621 | to make the BBDB buffer electric. This defaults to not electric. | |
622 | ||
623 | *** Button (erc-button.el) | |
624 | ||
625 | **** Use <backtab> instead of <C-tab> for `erc-button-previous'. | |
626 | ||
627 | *** Identd (erc-identd.el) | |
628 | ||
629 | **** Fix a bug that involves starting the identd server. | |
630 | ||
631 | **** Make this work with Emacs 22. | |
632 | ||
633 | **** Provide a real ERC module named `identd'. | |
634 | ||
635 | **** Don't create an extra buffer for the identd process. | |
636 | ||
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637 | *** Channel lists (erc-list.el) |
638 | ||
639 | **** Enable by default, except in the version of ERC bundled with Emacs 22. | |
640 | ||
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641 | *** Logging (erc-log.el) |
642 | ||
643 | **** By default, don't insert old logs when opening an ERC buffer. | |
644 | This may be changed by customizing `erc-log-insert-log-on-open'. | |
645 | ||
646 | **** New option `erc-log-write-after-send' determines whether the | |
647 | log file will be written to after every sent message. The default is | |
648 | not to do this. | |
649 | ||
650 | **** New option `erc-log-write-after-insert' determines whether the | |
651 | log file will be written to when new text is added to a logged ERC | |
652 | buffer. The default is not to do this. With this option and the | |
653 | previous option, logging should no longer slow down ERC as much. | |
654 | ||
655 | **** Default to saving buffers and queries on quit. | |
656 | This may be changed by customizing the `erc-save-buffer-on-quit' and | |
657 | `erc-save-queries-on-quit' options, respectively. | |
658 | ||
659 | **** Only perform logging when the `logging' module is added to | |
660 | `erc-modules'. This prevents logging from being activated just by | |
661 | loading the erc-log.el file, and makes logging act like other ERC | |
662 | modules. | |
663 | ||
664 | *** Programmable completion (erc-pcomplete.el) | |
665 | ||
666 | **** Don't complete the user's current nickname. | |
667 | ||
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669 | |
670 | ** Fix compiler errors in erc-autojoin.el and erc-dcc.el. | |
671 | ||
672 | ** Move to end of prompt when ERC reconnects to a server. | |
673 | ||
674 | ** Changes and additions to modules | |
675 | ||
676 | *** Spell-checking (erc-spelling.el) | |
677 | ||
678 | **** Don't spell-check nicks or words that are prefixed with '/'. | |
679 | ||
680 | **** Remove flyspell properties from words we shouldn't spell-check. | |
681 | ||
682 | **** Fix an issue that caused the ispell process to reload every time | |
683 | we switch to an ERC buffer. | |
684 | ||
685 | *** Timestamps (erc-stamp.el) | |
686 | ||
687 | **** Fix an inconsistency in calculating width of right timestamps. | |
688 | ||
689 | **** Rename option `erc-timestamp-right-align-by-pixel' to | |
690 | `erc-timestamp-use-align-to'. This controls whether to use the more | |
691 | fail-proof method of aligning right timestamps, as mentioned below. | |
692 | ||
693 | **** Fix a right timestamp spacing problem that used to occur when | |
694 | erc-stamp.el was byte-compiled. Now that this is fixed, it is safe to | |
695 | use the method that aligns right timestamps perfectly in Emacs22 with | |
696 | X. If the current version of Emacs doesn't support this method, use | |
697 | the simpler method, which is prone to alignment issues for math | |
698 | symbols and other variable-width text. | |
699 | ||
700 | A side effect of using this new method is that there will only be one | |
701 | space before a right timestamp in any saved logs. If this is | |
702 | unacceptable, set `erc-timestamp-use-align-to' to nil. | |
703 | ||
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704 | * Changes in ERC 5.1.1 |
705 | ||
706 | ** Fix a requirement on cl.el. | |
707 | ||
708 | ** Use tls.el for SSL connections, rather than ssl.el. | |
709 | ||
710 | ** Changes and additions to modules | |
711 | ||
712 | *** ibuffer integration (erc-ibuffer.el) | |
713 | ||
714 | **** Update this to work with the version of ibuffer.el that comes with | |
715 | recent Emacs variants. | |
716 | ||
717 | *** Old completion (erc-complete.el) | |
718 | ||
719 | **** Fix a few errors. | |
720 | ||
721 | *** Speedbar (erc-speedbar.el) | |
722 | ||
723 | **** Make this work with the version of speedbar.el that comes with | |
724 | recent Emacs variants. | |
725 | ||
726 | *** Timestamps (erc-stamp.el) | |
727 | ||
728 | **** By default, use a more failsafe method of displaying right timestamps. | |
729 | To get right timestamps to align perfectly in Emacs22 using X, set the | |
730 | new `erc-timestamp-right-align-by-pixel' option to non-nil. | |
731 | ||
732 | *** Viper compatibility (erc-viper.el) | |
733 | ||
734 | **** Since most of these changes are now merged into Emacs22, detect | |
735 | whether we need these changes and install them only if necessary. | |
736 | ||
737 | * Changes in ERC 5.1 | |
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738 | |
739 | ** Improve XEmacs compatibility. | |
740 | ||
741 | ** Namespace changes | |
742 | ||
743 | *** Now ERC doesn't use global variable space. | |
744 | Renamed all variables that didn't start with "erc-". | |
745 | ||
746 | o `away' is now `erc-away' | |
747 | ||
748 | o `current-nick' is now `erc-server-current-nick' | |
749 | ||
750 | o `last-peers' is now `erc-server-last-peers' | |
751 | ||
752 | o `last-ping-time' is now `erc-server-last-ping-time' | |
753 | ||
754 | o `last-sent-time' is now `erc-server-last-sent-time' | |
755 | ||
756 | o `lines-sent' is now `erc-server-lines-sent' | |
757 | ||
758 | o `quitting' is now `erc-server-quitting' | |
759 | ||
760 | *** Remove the `with-erc-channel-buffer' function. | |
761 | ||
762 | ** Bugfixes | |
763 | ||
764 | *** Don't inadvertently destroy face properties. | |
765 | ||
766 | *** Load erc scripts in a safer way. | |
767 | ||
768 | *** Don't insert a timestamp if text at point is invisible. | |
769 | ||
770 | *** Don't hide messages from those in `erc-fools' by default. | |
771 | Color their nicks instead. | |
772 | ||
773 | *** Use a more foolproof method of encoding and decoding strings | |
774 | before sending to a channel. | |
775 | ||
776 | ** Backend changes | |
777 | ||
778 | *** Renamed some server-specific variables | |
779 | ||
780 | o `erc-announced-server-name' is now `erc-server-announced-name' | |
781 | ||
782 | o `erc-auto-reconnect' is now `erc-server-auto-reconnect' | |
783 | ||
784 | o `erc-connect-function' is now `erc-server-connect-function' | |
785 | ||
786 | o `erc-default-coding-system' is now `erc-server-coding-system' | |
787 | ||
788 | o `erc-duplicate-timeout' is now `erc-server-duplicate-timeout' | |
789 | ||
790 | o `erc-duplicates' is now `erc-server-duplicates' | |
791 | ||
792 | o `erc-lag' is now `erc-server-lag' | |
793 | ||
794 | o `erc-prevent-duplicates' is now `erc-server-prevent-duplicates' | |
795 | ||
796 | o `erc-previous-read' is now `erc-server-filter-data' | |
797 | ||
798 | o `erc-process' is now `erc-server-process' | |
799 | ||
800 | o `erc-ping-handler' is now `erc-server-send-ping-handler' | |
801 | ||
802 | o `erc-ping-interval' is now `erc-server-send-ping-interval' | |
803 | ||
804 | *** Renamed some functions | |
805 | ||
806 | o `erc-connect' is now `erc-server-connect' | |
807 | ||
808 | o `erc-process-filter' is now `erc-server-filter-function' | |
809 | ||
810 | o `erc-send-command' is now `erc-server-send' | |
811 | ||
812 | o `erc-send-single-line' is now `erc-send-input' | |
813 | ||
814 | o `erc-setup-periodical-server-ping' is now | |
815 | `erc-server-setup-periodical-server-ping' | |
816 | ||
817 | o `erc-split-command is now `erc-split-line' | |
818 | ||
819 | *** New options | |
820 | ||
821 | o erc-server-flood-margin, erc-server-flood-penalty: New options | |
822 | that allow tweaking of flood control. | |
823 | ||
824 | o erc-split-line-length: The maximum line length of a single | |
825 | message. | |
826 | ||
827 | *** New variables | |
828 | ||
829 | o erc-server-flood-last-message, erc-server-flood-queue, | |
830 | erc-server-flood-timer: Flood control. | |
831 | ||
832 | o erc-server-processing-p: Indicate when we're currently processing | |
833 | a message. | |
834 | ||
835 | *** Remove some options | |
836 | ||
837 | o `erc-flood-limit' | |
838 | o `erc-flood-limit2' | |
839 | ||
840 | ** New customization group `erc-server' for dealing with IRC servers. | |
841 | ||
842 | ** ERC can now be installed by doing `make install' from the command line. | |
843 | ||
844 | ** ERC now has a manual in erc.texi. | |
845 | Type `make doc' to generate HTML and Info versions of it. | |
846 | ||
847 | ** ERC no longer depends on cl.el. | |
848 | Only the macros in cl-macs.el are used. | |
849 | ||
850 | ** Fix an edge case when quitting as new messages come in. | |
851 | ||
852 | ** Make flood protection toggle-able as on/off, removing the 'strict option. | |
853 | ||
854 | ** If possible, re-use channel buffers when reconnecting to a server. | |
855 | ||
856 | ** Text in ERC buffers is now read-only by default. | |
da6062e6 | 857 | To get the previous behavior, |
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858 | |
859 | ** Changes and additions to modules | |
860 | ||
861 | *** Auto-join (erc-autojoin.el) | |
862 | ||
863 | **** Recognize the Azzurra server. | |
864 | ||
865 | *** BBDB (erc-bbdb.el) | |
866 | ||
867 | **** When the user types /WHOIS, ask for a record to merge to. | |
868 | ||
869 | **** Store the displayed name of a BitlBee contact. | |
870 | The new `erc-bbdb-bitlbee-name-field' option specifies the field to use | |
871 | to store this information. | |
872 | ||
873 | **** Don't prompt for a name on /JOIN or /NICK. | |
874 | ||
875 | *** Button (erc-button.el) | |
876 | ||
877 | **** Fix customization of `erc-button-alist' | |
878 | ||
879 | **** New option `erc-button-nickname-face' determines the face to use | |
880 | when coloring ERC nicknames. | |
881 | ||
882 | *** Channel tracking (erc-track.el) | |
883 | ||
884 | **** Remove channels from the modified channels list if not currently | |
885 | connected. This should remove residue from the mode line after | |
886 | quitting ERC. | |
887 | ||
888 | **** Recognize buttonized text | |
889 | ||
890 | *** Highlighting (erc-match.el) | |
891 | ||
892 | **** Highlight current nickname by default. | |
893 | ||
894 | **** Added the option of beeping when certain matches occur. | |
895 | Add `erc-beep-on-match' to `erc-text-matched-hook' to enable | |
896 | beeping. Set the new variable `erc-beep-match-types' which match | |
897 | types that make beeps. | |
898 | ||
899 | *** Nicklist (erc-nicklist.el) | |
900 | ||
901 | **** Fix a couple of errors. | |
902 | ||
903 | **** Make sure a stray mouse click doesn't trigger an error. | |
904 | ||
905 | **** Insert icons from the /images directory next to nicks. | |
906 | This indicates their away status. The location is customizable via | |
907 | the new `erc-nicklist-icons-directory' option. | |
908 | ||
909 | If you do not want these icons, set `erc-nicklist-use-icons' to nil. | |
910 | ||
911 | *** Nickserv identification (erc-nickserv.el) | |
912 | ||
913 | **** Recognize Azzurra and OFTC networks. | |
914 | ||
915 | *** Old completion (erc-complete.el) | |
916 | ||
917 | **** Disable by default. | |
918 | ||
919 | *** Programmable completion (erc-pcomplete.el) | |
920 | ||
921 | **** Enable by default. | |
922 | ||
923 | *** Timestamps (erc-stamp.el) | |
924 | ||
925 | **** On Emacs22, align right timestamps perfectly, even if variable-width | |
926 | characters are used. If we aren't using Emacs22, move text farther | |
927 | away from the right margin when variable-width characters are used. | |
928 | It is considered better to misalign the stamp by a bit than to go past | |
929 | the right margin. | |
930 | ||
931 | **** Enable by default | |
932 | ||
933 | ** New modules | |
934 | ||
935 | *** Spell-checking (erc-spelling.el) | |
936 | ||
937 | **** Use flyspell in ERC. | |
938 | ||
939 | *** Viper compatibility (erc-viper.el) | |
940 | ||
941 | **** Helps ERC work correctly in viper-mode. | |
942 | ||
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944 | |
945 | ** Fix a problem with undo in channels. | |
946 | ||
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948 | |
949 | ** Fix typo in the `ctcp-request-to' entry of the English catalog. | |
950 | ||
951 | ** Debugging with edegug has been made easier in all of the | |
952 | erc-with-* and with-erc* macros. | |
953 | ||
954 | ** Non-ASCII character sets should be better supported when sending | |
955 | and processing messages. | |
956 | ||
957 | ** A load failure with erc-autoaway.el and Emacs21 has been fixed. | |
958 | ||
959 | ** A few XEmacs warnings were fixed. | |
960 | ||
961 | ** Changes and additions to modules | |
962 | ||
963 | *** Backend (erc-backend.el) | |
964 | ||
965 | **** Move the check for hidden messages into `erc-display-message' | |
966 | so there isn't so much replicated code. | |
967 | ||
968 | **** Add `definition-name' property to constructed symbols so that | |
969 | `find-function' and `find-variable' will be able to locate them. | |
970 | ||
971 | **** Make sure logs are inserted info the correct channel buffers. | |
972 | There was previously an error when using `erc-insert-log-on-open' in | |
973 | combination with autojoin to multiple channels. | |
974 | ||
975 | *** Button (erc-button.el) | |
976 | ||
977 | **** The layering of `erc-button-face' on other faces in ERC buffers | |
978 | has been improved. | |
979 | ||
980 | *** Channel tracking (erc-track.el) | |
981 | ||
982 | **** Use optimal amount of whitespace around modified channels | |
983 | indicator. Previously, there was an additional unnecessary space. | |
984 | ||
985 | **** Fix an error that occurred when unchecked buffers existed when | |
986 | invoking /QUIT. | |
987 | ||
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989 | |
990 | ** If a channel key is required for a certain channel, ERC will prompt | |
991 | for one if `erc-prompt-for-channel-key' is non-nil. | |
992 | ||
993 | ** ERC doesn't try to reconnect if the network connection is refused | |
994 | when using `open-network-stream-nowait' as the `erc-connect-function'. | |
995 | ||
996 | ** Messages from multiple servers will not go to the currently active | |
997 | buffer. The messages from each server will be contained in the most | |
998 | recently active channel/server buffer that corresponds with the | |
999 | server. | |
1000 | ||
1001 | ** Some text messages were cleaned up slightly. | |
1002 | ||
1003 | ** Button faces should no longer "cover" other faces. | |
1004 | ||
1005 | ** Made some XEmacs compatibility fixes. | |
1006 | ||
1007 | ** Nicknames containing a backslash are now correctly highlighted as | |
1008 | current-nick and buttonized as nicks. | |
1009 | ||
1010 | ** `erc-server-select' doesn't offer networks without servers as a | |
1011 | choice anymore. | |
1012 | ||
1013 | ** Non-ASCII character support has been improved. | |
1014 | ||
1015 | ** Changes and additions to modules | |
1016 | ||
1017 | *** Menu (erc-menu.el) | |
1018 | ||
1019 | **** You can now save logs and truncate buffers from the menu-bar. | |
1020 | ||
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1022 | |
1023 | ** Narrowing in ERC buffers no longer causes formatting errors. | |
1024 | ||
1025 | ** The BBDB module now loads correctly when customizing `erc-modules'. | |
1026 | ||
1027 | ** The value of `erc-button-face' is now respected. | |
1028 | ||
1029 | ** Fixed a bug which caused a read-only error during connection. | |
1030 | ||
1031 | ** Server buffers are now tracked correctly. | |
1032 | This means that `erc-track-priority-faces-only', `erc-track-exclude', | |
1033 | and `erc-track-exclude-types' now work with server buffers. | |
1034 | ||
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1036 | |
1037 | ** Channel members are now stored as a hash-table. | |
1038 | `erc-server-users' and `erc-channel-users' are now hash-tables, rather | |
1039 | than alists. This significantly increases performance, especially in | |
1040 | large channels. Each channel member is stored as an `erc-server-user' | |
1041 | struct, with additional information about the channels they are on | |
1042 | stored in an `erc-channel-user' struct. Code using old alist-style | |
1043 | channel members needs to be updated to work with hash-tables. | |
1044 | This new code also removes the need for erc-members.el, which has been | |
1045 | removed. | |
1046 | ||
1047 | ** The way ERC deals with input from the server has changed. | |
1048 | All server response code is now in a new file, erc-backend.el. There | |
1049 | should be no real user visible changes. There are, however, a few | |
1050 | major changes for implementers, and module writers: | |
1051 | ||
1052 | *** The PARSED response that all handlers get called with is | |
1053 | no longer a vector, but an `erc-response' struct. | |
1054 | ||
1055 | This means LESS MAGIC NUMBERS in the ERC source code, but a few | |
1056 | changes in how you get at parsed responses. | |
1057 | ||
1058 | The sender is accessed via `erc-response.sender'. | |
1059 | ||
1060 | The command is accessed via `erc-response.command'. | |
1061 | ||
1062 | The arguments to the command (everything after the command and | |
1063 | before the colon) are accessed via `erc-response.command-args'. | |
1064 | This is a /list/ of arguments in the order they appear in the | |
1065 | unparsed response. | |
1066 | ||
1067 | The contents of the response is accessed via | |
1068 | `erc-response.contents'. | |
1069 | ||
1070 | Should, for some reason, you want to do something with the | |
1071 | /unparsed/ response, you can get it via `erc-response.unparsed'. | |
1072 | ||
1073 | *** The `erc-server-hook-list' mechanism is gone. | |
1074 | ||
1075 | All server response handlers should be defined with | |
1076 | `define-erc-response-handler'. This defines functions and | |
1077 | corresponding hook variables. | |
1078 | ||
1079 | The mapping of server commands to hook variables is no longer | |
1080 | done via `erc-event-to-hook', but through an #'equal hashtable, | |
1081 | `erc-server-responses'. In order to find a hook you do: | |
1082 | ||
1083 | (erc-get-hook command) | |
1084 | ||
1085 | See the docstring of `define-erc-response-handler' for more | |
1086 | information. | |
1087 | ||
1088 | *** ALL hook variables have been renamed. | |
1089 | ||
1090 | In accordance with recommendations in the Emacs Lisp manual, | |
1091 | the hook variables are no longer called `erc-server-FOO-hook', | |
1092 | but rather `erc-server-FOO-functions'. This is to indicate | |
1093 | that the functions they call take arguments. | |
1094 | ||
1095 | All the modules in ERC have been updated to reflect this change, | |
1096 | but external module authors should beware. | |
1097 | ||
1098 | ** The values of `erc-mode-line-format' and `erc-header-line-format' | |
1099 | are now defined as strings to be formatted using `format-spec'. | |
1100 | `erc-mode-line-format' does not replace the whole mode-line anymore, | |
1101 | only `mode-line-buffer-identification' is set. This way, personal | |
1102 | mode-line configurations are not modified and all key bindings work as | |
1103 | expected. The process status (connecting, closed) is now shown in | |
1104 | `mode-line-process'. | |
1105 | ||
1106 | ** Customization of ERC variables has been made easier. Variables | |
1107 | have been split into more groups for better organization. | |
1108 | ||
1109 | ** New variables | |
1110 | ||
1111 | o `erc-send-whitespace-lines' - Set this to send lines even if they | |
1112 | are empty. | |
1113 | ||
1114 | o `erc-manual-set-nick-on-bad-nick-p' - If the nickname you chose is | |
1115 | already taken or not allowed, your nick is not changed and you can | |
1116 | try again manually if this is non-nil. | |
1117 | ||
1118 | o `erc-mode-line-away-status-format' - You can now set what is shown | |
1119 | in the mode-line when you are away. | |
1120 | ||
1121 | o `erc-header-line-uses-help-echo-p' - The header-line now uses the | |
1122 | help-echo property. You can set this to nil to disable it. | |
1123 | ||
1124 | o `erc-format-query-as-channel-p' - Set this to nil to have messages | |
1125 | in the query buffer formatted like private messages. | |
1126 | ||
1127 | o `erc-show-channel-key-p' - The channel key is now shown with the | |
1128 | other channel modes in the header line. Set this to nil if you | |
1129 | want it hidden. | |
1130 | ||
1131 | o `erc-prompt-for-channel-key' - Set this if you want to be prompted | |
1132 | for the channel key (channel's mode is +k) when you call | |
1133 | `erc-join-channel' interactively. | |
1134 | ||
1135 | o `erc-kill-server-buffer-on-quit' - If non-nil, kill the server | |
1136 | buffer automatically when you quit. | |
1137 | ||
1138 | ** New hooks | |
1139 | ||
1140 | o `erc-join-hook' - Called when you join a channel. | |
1141 | ||
1142 | o `erc-kick-hook' - Called when you are kicked from a channel. The | |
1143 | channel's buffer is sent as an argument to functions called from | |
1144 | this hook. | |
1145 | ||
1146 | o `erc-nick-changed-functions' - Whenever your nickname changes | |
1147 | successfully, the functions in this hook are run with the | |
1148 | arguments NEW-NICK and OLD-NICK. | |
1149 | ||
1150 | ** New command /WHOAMI - Do a /WHOIS on your current nickname. | |
1151 | ||
1152 | ** The key binding for changing channel modes is now C-c C-o. | |
1153 | ||
1154 | ** Removed variables | |
1155 | ||
1156 | o `erc-echo-notices-in-minibuffer-flag' and | |
1157 | `erc-echo-notices-in-current-buffer' - You should use | |
1158 | `erc-echo-notice-hook' and `erc-echo-notice-always-hook' instead. | |
1159 | ||
1160 | o `erc-prompt-interactive-input' has been removed (commented out) | |
1161 | because nickname completion does not work with it. | |
1162 | ||
1163 | o All INFO buffer-related variables and functions have been removed. | |
1164 | ||
1165 | ** You can now disable modules by setting `erc-modules' with the | |
1166 | customization interface. | |
1167 | ||
1168 | ** Changes and additions to modules | |
1169 | ||
1170 | *** Autoaway (erc-autoaway.el) | |
1171 | ||
1172 | **** New variable `erc-autoaway-no-auto-back-regexp' - Add text which, | |
1173 | when you type anything matching it, will not automatically discard | |
1174 | your away status when `erc-auto-discard-away' is non-nil. | |
1175 | ||
1176 | *** Filling (erc-fill.el) | |
1177 | ||
1178 | **** New variable `erc-fill-variable-maximum-indentation' - Don't | |
1179 | indent more than this many characters when indenting a message from a | |
1180 | user with a long nickname. | |
1181 | ||
1182 | *** Goodies (erc-goodies.el) | |
1183 | ||
1184 | **** Miscellaneous small modules have been moved from erc.el. | |
1185 | The functions erc-add-scroll-to-bottom, erc-make-read-only, | |
1186 | erc-send-distinguish-noncommands, erc-interpret-controls, erc-unmorse, | |
1187 | erc-smiley, and erc-occur, which were defined in the main erc.el file | |
1188 | have been moved to erc-goodies.el and have mostly been translated to | |
1189 | the modules scrolltobottom, readonly, noncommands, irccontrols, smiley | |
1190 | and unmorse. | |
1191 | ||
1192 | **** New variables | |
1193 | ||
1194 | o `erc-input-line-position' - The line number to use with | |
1195 | `erc-scroll-to-bottom'. | |
1196 | ||
1197 | o `erc-beep-p' - Beep if there is a \C-g control character in a | |
1198 | message. | |
1199 | ||
1200 | *** Channel lists (erc-list.el) | |
1201 | ||
1202 | **** New variable `erc-chanlist-highlight-face' - A face used for | |
1203 | highlighting the current line. | |
1204 | ||
1205 | *** Highlighting (erc-match.el) | |
1206 | ||
1207 | **** `erc-current-nick-highlight-type' has new options: 'keyword and | |
1208 | 'nick-or-keyword. | |
1209 | ||
1210 | *** Menu (erc-menu.el) | |
1211 | ||
1212 | **** The `IRC' menu is now automatically added to `erc-mode' buffers. | |
1213 | ||
1214 | *** Networks (erc-nets.el) | |
1215 | ||
1216 | **** The functions for determining current network are in this file. | |
1217 | There were a couple of functions spread about in different files which | |
1218 | each had a different way of determining the current network. The | |
1219 | methods have been combined, and the big list of known networks | |
1220 | (`erc-networks-alist') is being put to use. You can access the | |
1221 | network's name by calling the new function `erc-network'. This | |
1222 | returns the name of the current network as a symbol or 'Unknown if it | |
1223 | could not determine which network it is. | |
1224 | ||
1225 | *** Nicklist (erc-nicklist.el) | |
1226 | ||
1227 | **** ERC has a new way of displaying nicknames in a channel. | |
1228 | The new file erc-nicklist.el defines a new command `erc-nicklist' | |
1229 | which pops up a small Emacs window showing the nicknames of all | |
1230 | members of the current channel. The implementation is not complete | |
1231 | and is rather proof-of-concept for now. The result is something a bit | |
1232 | like erc-speedbar, but not quite as invasive, and doesn't require use | |
1233 | of a new frame. | |
1234 | ||
1235 | *** Internet services / Nickserv (erc-nickserv.el) | |
1236 | ||
1237 | **** Network detection is now taken care of by erc-nets.el. | |
1238 | The function `erc-current-network' is deprecated, use `erc-network' | |
1239 | instead. The variable `erc-networks' has been removed, use | |
1240 | `erc-networks-alist'. The network symbols used in | |
1241 | `erc-nickserv-alist' now match those in `erc-networks-alist'. | |
1242 | ||
1243 | **** New variable `erc-nickserv-identify-mode' - Choose which method | |
1244 | to use for automatic identification: you can wait for Nickserv to ask | |
1245 | you to identify (the default), or send an identify message | |
1246 | automatically after you change your nickname. | |
1247 | ||
1248 | *** Speedbar (erc-speedbar.el) | |
1249 | ||
1250 | **** New variable `erc-speedbar-sort-users-type' - Sort users in a | |
1251 | channel by activity, alphabetically, or not at all. | |
1252 | ||
1253 | *** Timestamps (erc-stamp.el) | |
1254 | ||
1255 | **** `erc-timestamp-only-if-changed-flag' now works when | |
1256 | `erc-insert-timestamp-function' is set to 'erc-insert-timestamp-left. | |
1257 | ||
1258 | **** New variable `erc-timestamp-intangible' - Set this to nil if | |
1259 | timestamps should not have the 'intangible property. | |
1260 | ||
1261 | *** Channel tracking (erc-track.el) | |
1262 | ||
1263 | **** Using faces to indicate channel activity in the modeline now works | |
1264 | in XEmacs. | |
1265 | ||
1266 | **** New variables | |
1267 | ||
1268 | o `erc-track-priority-faces-only' - Ignore changes in a channel | |
1269 | unless there is a face from the `erc-track-faces-priority-list' in | |
1270 | the message. | |
1271 | ||
1272 | o `erc-track-exclude-server-buffer' - Ignore changes in the server | |
1273 | buffer. | |
1274 | ||
1275 | o `erc-track-position-in-mode-line' - Set the position in the | |
1276 | mode-line where modified channels are shown (only works in GNU | |
1277 | Emacs versions above 21.3). | |
1278 | ||
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1280 | |
1281 | ** The module system has again changed a lot. You can now customize | |
1282 | the variable `erc-modules' and define once and for all which | |
1283 | extension modules you want to use. This unfortunately may require | |
e1dbe924 | 1284 | you to change your current erc initialization code a bit, if you |
da6062e6 | 1285 | have some existing customizations. On the other hand, this change |
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1286 | makes the configuration of extension modules a lot easier for new |
1287 | users. In theory, you should be able to configure all aspects of | |
1288 | ERC by using the customize interface, you should no longer really | |
1289 | need to write Lisp code for trivial customizations. | |
1290 | ||
1291 | By default, the following modules are now loaded: (pcomplete | |
1292 | netsplit fill track ring button autojoin) | |
1293 | ||
1294 | Please use M-x customize-variable RET erc-modules RET to change the | |
1295 | default if it does not suite your needs. | |
1296 | ||
1297 | ** THe symbol used in `erc-nickserv-passwords' for debian.org IRC servers | |
1298 | (formerly called OpenProjects, now FreeNode) has changed from | |
1299 | openprojects to freenode. You may need to update your configuration | |
1300 | for a successful automatic nickserv identification. | |
1301 | ||
8508e990 | 1302 | * Changes in ERC 3.0.cvs.20030119 |
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1303 | |
1304 | ** New module erc-dcc: | |
1305 | ||
1306 | This finally implements DCC. It requires server sockets to fully work | |
1307 | in both directions. This feature is currently only available in Emacs | |
1308 | 21.3.50 (CVS). Here is a short list of what should work though. | |
1309 | ||
1310 | ** Compatibility: | |
1311 | * Emacs 21.2, DCC get, and accepting DCC chat offers. | |
1312 | * XEmacs 21, Only accepting DCC chat offers. | |
1313 | ||
1314 | ** erc is switching to global-minor-modes for activation of submodules. | |
1315 | ||
1316 | This allows you to customize such a mode and get automatic loading of | |
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1317 | the module. No longer putting a lot of require statements in .emacs. |
1318 | At least this is the long-term plan, not all modules are converted yet. | |
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1319 | |
1320 | ** The most important user visible change is that you now need to activate | |
1321 | erc-completion-mode, to get TAB completion. The new completion code | |
1322 | is based on pcomplete. To get the old code, manually load | |
1323 | erc-complete and bind TAB to erc-complete in erc-mode-map. | |
1324 | ||
1325 | To activate completion on startup, put (erc-completion-mode 1) in your | |
1326 | .emacs file. | |
1327 | ||
1328 | Same applies to timestamps. You no longer need to (require | |
1329 | 'erc-stamp), you can customize the variable `erc-timestamp-mode', and | |
1330 | the rest should be automatic. | |
1331 | ||
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1334 | ||
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1337 | the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or |
1338 | (at your option) any later version. | |
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1339 | |
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1342 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
1343 | GNU General Public License for more details. | |
1344 | ||
1345 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
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