ERC NEWS -*- outline -*-
-* Changes in ERC 5.2 (stable pre-release for Emacs 22)
+Copyright (C) 2006-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+See the end of the file for license conditions.
+
+* For changes after ERC 5.3, see the main Emacs NEWS file
+
+* Changes in ERC 5.3
+
+** New function `erc-tls' is to be used for connecting to a server via TLS.
+It requires the tls.el library.
+
+** The function `erc-ssl' will now always use ssl.el, even in the version
+of ERC that comes with Emacs.
+
+** Type `C-u' before `C-c C-j' to prompt for a channel key
+`erc-join-channel' now accepts a prefix-argument to prompt for the key
+when channels are protected by keywords.
+
+** ERC will now automatically determine which nick prefixes are valid
+when joining a server.
+
+** Figure out which directory contains startup files when looking for
+.erc.el. For Emacs this is usually ~/.emacs.d, and for XEmacs this is
+usually ~/.xemacs.
+
+** Fix bug with view-mode when running erc-toggle-debug-irc-protocol.
+
+** Permit several commands to be run even when the server connection is dead.
+This includes /CLEAR, /COUNTRY, /HELP, /LASTLOG, /QUIT, /GQUIT,
+/RECONNECT, /SERVER, and /SET.
+
+** Make /RECONNECT work better when the server connection is dead.
+Also, handle case where the server buffer has been killed.
+
+** Better handle interaction with /RECONNECT and indefinite reconnect
+attempts. Display message which tells the user that they can stop the
+reconnect attempts by killing the server buffer.
+
+** New option `erc-reuse-frames' determines whether new frames are always
+created. It defaults to not creating a new frame for an ERC buffer if
+there is already a window displaying it. This only has an effect when
+the `erc-join-buffer' option is set to 'frame.
+
+** New command /ME'S handles the case where someone types "/me's" in an
+ERC buffer. It concatenates the text " 's" to the beginning of the
+input and then sends the result like a normal /ME command.
+
+** Fix bug where some messages were being sent to the server too soon.
+In the past, this may have resulted in strange problems like seeing
+the connection attempt stall, which may have especially affected
+spotty or traffic-shaped connections.
+
+** Handle 307 (nick has identified) responses from the server.
+
+** Display a less-confusing message if the connection attempt fails.
+
+** On a tty, make sure that notices are displayed in blue rather than pink.
+
+** By default, open query buffers that are initiated by others in a new
+unselected window. This may be changed by customizing the
+`erc-auto-query' option. This should make ERC more friendly to new
+users.
+
+** New option `erc-query-display' indicates how to display a query buffer
+that is made using the /QUERY command. The default is to display the
+query in a new selected window.
+
+** By default, display network name rather than server name in the modeline.
+This should ERC use less space in the modeline. To get the old
+behavior back, set `erc-mode-line-format' to "%s %a".
+
+** New option `erc-remove-parsed-property' determines whether to remove
+the 'erc-parsed property. This should save some memory in channels
+with large amounts of text on screen. It is enabled by default.
+
+** Modules newly enabled by default
+
+*** move-to-prompt: Move to the prompt when typing text.
+*** networks: Provide data about IRC networks.
+
+** New formatting variables allowed in `erc-format-network':
+
+*** `%N': the name of the network.
+*** `%S': much like %s, but let the network name trump the server name.
+
+** Compatibility with old releases
+
+*** In `erc-server-coding-system' and `erc-coding-system-for-target', pass
+the `target' argument as the first and only argument to the function
+named by these options.
+
+*** In `erc-track-faces-priority-list', permit list entries to be lists of
+faces. This can be used to differentiate between, for example,
+buttons in default text and buttons in notices.
+
+*** The `erc-assert' function has been removed in favor of using `assert'
+from cl-macs.el.
+
+*** If your application uses the 'erc-parsed text property outside of
+the insert hooks, you will need to set `erc-remove-parsed-property'
+to nil.
+
+** Changes and additions to modules
+
+*** BBDB (erc-bbdb.el)
+
+**** Work around bug in XEmacs 21.4 that causes an error to be thrown when
+the first argument to `run-at-time' is nil.
+
+*** Button (erc-button.el)
+
+**** Recognize parentheses that are part of URLs.
+
+**** When in a channel, only buttonize nicks from that channel.
+
+*** DCC support (erc-dcc.el)
+
+**** Turn this into the "dcc" module for ERC, so that it can be more
+easily enabled.
+
+**** New option `erc-dcc-listen-host' determines which IP address to listen
+on for outside connection attempts.
+
+**** New option `erc-dcc-public-host' determines which IP address to advertise
+when sending a file. This is useful for people who are on a local
+subnet. Together, these two options replace the `erc-dcc-host'
+option.
+
+**** New option `erc-dcc-receive-cache' indicates how much of a received
+file to store in an Emacs buffer before flushing it to disk. The
+default is 0.5 MB.
+
+**** Save only parts of received files in buffers, writing repeatedly to
+disk after we get at least `erc-dcc-receive-cache' bytes. This allows
+users to receive very large files without running out of memory.
+
+**** Rename `erc-verbose-dcc' option to `erc-dcc-verbose' and also
+default it to nil.
+
+**** Fix edge case in erc-dcc-send-sentinel.
+
+**** If client confirms too much, then display byte count and kill the
+file buffer.
+
+*** Goodies (erc-goodies.el)
+
+**** New module move-to-prompt causes the point to be moved to the prompt
+if a user tries to type elsewhere in the buffer, and then inserts
+their keystrokes after the prompt. It is enabled by default.
+
+**** New module keep-place keeps your place in unvisited ERC buffers
+when new messages arrive.
+
+**** Enable scroll-to-bottom in all ERC buffers when the module is enabled,
+rather than having the user do it manually.
+
+**** Fix bug with buffer ordering and scroll-to-bottom module.
+
+**** In the unmorse module, handle the morse code style that has "/ " at
+the end of every letter.
+
+*** Identd (erc-identd.el)
+
+**** Fix bad behavior when closing the identd process.
+
+*** Channel lists (erc-list.el)
+
+**** Replace the old module with a rewritten one, so that we can include
+it with Emacs. The old version of erc-list.el has been renamed to
+erc-list-old.el, and is available as the list-old module.
+
+The new version does not yet have support for XEmacs.
+
+**** Don't display lots of output in the server buffer when running /LIST.
+
+*** Logging (erc-log.el)
+
+**** Permit the `erc-log-channels-directory' option to be set to a function
+name. This makes it easier to write custom functions that determine
+where log files should be placed.
+
+**** New option `erc-log-filter-function' specifies the function to call
+for filtering text before writing it to a log file. By default, no
+filtering is performed.
+
+*** Networks (erc-networks.el)
+
+**** Turn this into the "networks" module for ERC, so that it can be more
+easily enabled. Enable it by default.
+
+**** Add support for Rizon.
+
+*** Internet services / Nickserv (erc-services.el)
+
+**** New hook option `erc-nickserv-identified-hook' is run after NickServ
+acknowledges a successful identification.
+
+**** Add support for the GRnet and Rizon networks.
+
+*** Timestamps (erc-stamp.el)
+
+**** By default, place timestamps on both the left and the right.
+The left timestamps appear once a day, and the right timestamps appear
+once a minute when new messages arrive. To change this, customize the
+`erc-insert-timestamp-function' and
+`erc-insert-away-timestamp-function' options.
+
+*** Channel tracking (erc-track.el)
+
+**** If `erc-track-position-in-mode-line' is set to nil, the tracking
+information won't be shown in the mode line, which is a change from
+the previous behavior of showing it "After all other information".
+
+If this variable is set to t, then the information will be added to
+the very end of the mode line.
+
+**** New option `erc-track-remove-disconnected-buffers' controls whether
+buffers associated with a server that is disconnected should be
+removed from the modified buffers list. The default is to keep them
+in the list.
+
+**** New hook option `erc-track-list-changed-hook' is run whenever the
+contents of the modified channels list changes. It is useful for
+people who use a separate mechanism to provide notification of channel
+activity.
+
+**** The `erc-track-switch-direction' option now can be set to the value
+'importance. If set to this value, ERC will switch to channels in
+order of importance, which is determined by the position of the
+channel's face in `erc-track-faces-priority-list'.
+
+**** Activate erc-track-minor-mode earlier in the connection process.
+
+**** Don't track buttons in notices.
+
+**** Get a rough idea for which channels are currently active by
+switching between several normal conversation faces in the modeline.
+This behavior can be modified by changing the new
+`erc-track-faces-normal-list' option.
+
+**** Ignore display of who set the default channel topic and listing of
+users on the current channel. Customize the `erc-track-exclude-types'
+option to indicate the types of messages to exclude. These two
+message types are "333" and "353", respectively.
+
+*** Support for acting as an XDCC file-server (erc-xdcc.el)
+
+**** Turn this into the "xdcc" module for ERC, so that it can be more
+easily enabled.
+
+* Changes in ERC 5.2
** M-x erc RET now starts ERC.
`erc-select' has been changed to `erc'. `erc-select' still remains as
`erc-ssl' with `erc-select-ssl' as its alias. The function that was
known as `erc' is now `erc-open'.
+** Open query buffers by default when private messages are received.
+The default value of `erc-auto-query' has been changed to 'bury.
+
+** New command: /RECONNECT
+This command tries to reconnect to the current IRC server exactly
+once. It does not work in server buffers (throws an error before the
+command is run), but works in query and channel buffers.
+
+** In MS-DOS environments, look for _ercrc.el rather than .ercrc.el.
+
+** Fix buggy interaction with multi-tty Emacs.
+
+** After running /QUIT, make sure that the IRC process is killed within
+4 seconds. Freenode, in particular, needs this at times.
+
+** If the IRC process has not responded to our PINGs within a certain
+time, kill it and restart the connection. See
+`erc-server-auto-reconnect', `erc-server-reconnect-attempts',
+`erc-server-reconnect-timeout', `erc-server-send-ping-interval', and
+`erc-server-send-ping-timeout' to fine-tune ERC's behavior.
+
+** Avoid getting into an infinite connection loop.
+Previously, this could happen if your nick was banned, you were using
+Tor, incorrect information was entered, or the connection was bad.
+
+** Make ban messages less confusing.
+
+** Restore the point correctly when reconnecting to an IRC server.
+
+** Make /IGNORE and /UNIGNORE prompt to determine whether their
+argument is a user or a regexp. This results in less-confusing
+behavior when trying to ignore someone who has a bracket in their
+nick.
+
+** Make the default port "6667" rather than "ircd", because some
+operating systems don't know what port "ircd" maps to.
+
+** Fix several bugs in erc-iswitchb (C-c C-b).
+
+** Clean up internal documentation.
+Special thanks go to Juanma Barranquero for the thorough vetting of
+ERC's internal documentation.
+
+** Display a more informative message when a module is not found.
+
+** Fix a bug where paths were being colored like IRC commands.
+
+** In the customize interface for `erc-modules', add the name of the module.
+This makes it easier to find modules by name.
+
+** erc-server-send-ping-interval: Change to use a default of 30 seconds.
+
+** Some files which are included with the release of ERC 5.2 will not
+appear in the version of ERC that is bundled with Emacs 22. These
+extras files may be found at:
+
+ o http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/erc/erc-5.2-extras.tar.gz, or
+ o http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/erc/erc-5.2-extras.zip.
+
+** Renamed files
+
+Several files were renamed so as to make them distinct to users of the
+MS-DOS operating system.
+
+ o erc-autojoin.el -> erc-join.el
+ o erc-complete.el -> erc-hecomplete.el
+ o erc-nickserv.el -> erc-services.el
+ o ChangeLog.NNNN -> ChangeLog.NN
+
+** Header line changes
+
+*** Remove "[IRC]" from the header line.
+
+*** Add the %l format character to `erc-header-line-format',
+
+*** Document how to remove the header line.
+Namely: (setq erc-header-line-format nil).
+
+** New options
+
+*** erc-server-reconnect-attempts: Determines the number of
+reconnection attempts that ERC will make per server.
+
+*** erc-server-reconnect-timeout: Determines the amount of time,
+in seconds, that ERC will wait between successive reconnect attempts.
+
+*** erc-server-send-ping-timeout: Determines when to consider a connection
+stalled and restart it. The default is after 120 seconds.
+
+*** erc-system-name: Determines the system name to use when logging in.
+The default is to figure this out by calling `system-name'.
+
+** New face: `erc-my-nick-face'
+This helps make it easier to distinguish messages sent by yourself
+from messages sent by other users when the value of the variable
+`erc-show-my-nick' is non-nil.
+
+** Namespace changes
+
+*** New macro: `erc-with-server-buffer'
+Switches to the current ERC server buffer and runs some code. If no
+server buffer is available, return nil. This is a useful way to
+access variables in the server buffer.
+
+*** New function: `erc-open-server-buffer-p'
+Returns non-nil if the given buffer is an ERC server buffer that has
+an open IRC process.
+
+*** New function: `erc-format-lag-time'
+Returns the estimated lag time to server, `erc-server-lag'.
+
+*** Renamed items
+
+ o `erc-server-setup-periodical-server-ping' is now
+ `erc-server-setup-periodical-ping'
+
+ o `erc-away-p' is now `erc-away-time'
+
+** Changes to the ERC manual
+
+*** New section: Sample Session.
+Describes a sample ERC session for connecting to the #emacs channel on
+Freenode. Also mention the #erc channel.
+
+*** New section: Special Features.
+Describes some of the special features of ERC.
+
+*** Getting Started: Mention ~/.emacs.d/.ercrc.el and the Customize
+interface.
+
+*** Development: Mention ErcDevelopment page on emacswiki.org.
+
+*** Tips and Tricks: Remove empty section for now.
+
+*** Options: Mention how to see available ERC options.
+
+*** Sample Configuration: Add an example of how to configure ERC.
+
+** New modules
+
+*** Autoaway (erc-autoaway.el)
+
+**** Make this much more reliable.
+
+**** Avoid duplicate messages when coming back from being away.
+
+**** Fix bug where autoaway was enabled just by loading the file.
+
+*** BBDB (erc-bbdb.el)
+
+**** Display information on how to cancel merging of info or how to
+create a new John Doe record.
+
+**** Make it so that information from /whois continues to come in, even
+while prompting for a record to merge.
+
+**** Make hitting C-g correctly abort merging the record.
+
+*** Capab identify (erc-capab.el)
+Mark users who haven't identified to NickServ on servers supporting
+CAPAB IDENTIFY-MSG.
+
** Changes and additions to modules
+*** Button (erc-button.el)
+
+**** Make <backtab> go to the previous button.
+
*** Channel tracking (erc-track.el)
**** Use mouse-face and help-echo for channel names in the mode-line.
This helps people using a mouse know that they are buttons and can be
clicked on.
+**** Fix issue where C-c C-SPC could conflict with user-defined keybindings.
+This is accomplished by moving these bindings to their own global
+minor mode. Now the default is to check whether the user has bound
+something to C-c C-SPC or C-c C-@. If they have, prompt them about
+whether to really override that binding. This also has the effect of
+preventing ERC from clobbering rcirc's keybinding, unless this is
+desired. See `erc-track-enable-keybindings' for more details.
+
+**** New option: erc-track-enable-keybindings.
+Determine whether or not to enable the C-c C-SPC and C-c C-@
+keybindings. The default is to ask whether to do this if a binding to
+these keys already exists. It can also be set to t or nil to always
+bind or never bind, respectively.
+
+**** Remove `track-when-inactive' module.
+See `erc-track-when-inactive' for further details.
+
+**** New option: erc-track-when-inactive.
+This option replaces the track-when-inactive module. Set it to
+non-nil to track activity even in visible buffers when inactive. The
+default is nil.
+
+**** Remove the `track-modified-channels' alias for the `track' module.
+
+*** DCC support (erc-dcc.el)
+
+**** Add Usage section to Commentary.
+
+**** Fix a bug in the server message output.
+
+*** Filling (erc-fill.el)
+
+**** Fix bug involving messages that start with one or more blank lines.
+
+*** Identd (erc-identd.el)
+
+**** New option `erc-identd-port'
+Specifies the port to use if none is given as an argument to
+`erc-identd-start'. This is placed in the new customization group
+`erc-identd'.
+
+**** New function: `erc-identd-quickstart'
+Ignores any arguments and calls `erc-identd-start'.
+
+*** Channel lists (erc-list.el)
+
+**** Enable by default, except in the version of ERC bundled with Emacs 22.
+
+*** Logging (erc-log.el)
+
+**** Make sure filenames are safe to use before writing to them.
+
+**** Save all log buffers when exiting Emacs.
+
+**** erc-generate-log-file-name-function: Add option for
+`erc-generate-log-file-name-network', which is a new function that
+uses the network name rather than the server name when possible.
+
+*** Menu (erc-menu.el)
+
+**** Name the menu "ERC" instead of "IRC" to avoid confusion with rcirc
+and other clients.
+
+**** Make this into a proper module and load it by default.
+
+**** Add "Current channel" submenu.
+
+*** Networks (erc-networks.el)
+
+**** Add support for Ars OpenIRC, LinuxChix, and OFTC networks.
+
+**** Escape periods in Konfido.Net and Kewl.Org.
+
+*** Internet services / Nickserv (erc-nickserv.el)
+
+**** Add new 'both method for the `erc-nickserv-identify-mode' option
+and make it the default. This tries to do the right thing both when a
+known nickserv message exists for an IRC network, and when it does
+not.
+
+**** Support nickserv authentication on OFTC, Azzurra, Ars, and QuakeNet.
+
+**** Support authentication on BitlBee.
+
+**** Make source code easier to understand by using accessor functions.
+
+*** Sound support (erc-sound.el)
+
+**** Make this work with both Emacs 21 and Emacs 22.
+
+*** Timestamps (erc-stamp.el)
+
+**** Exclude the newline from the erc-timestamp field.
+
+**** New function: `erc-toggle-timestamps'.
+Toggles display of timestamps.
+
* Changes in ERC 5.1.4
** Make find-function and find-variable work in Emacs 22 for
**** Don't create an extra buffer for the identd process.
+*** Channel lists (erc-list.el)
+
+**** Enable by default, except in the version of ERC bundled with Emacs 22.
+
*** Logging (erc-log.el)
**** By default, don't insert old logs when opening an ERC buffer.
** If possible, re-use channel buffers when reconnecting to a server.
** Text in ERC buffers is now read-only by default.
-To get the previous behavior,
+To get the previous behavior,
** Changes and additions to modules
** The module system has again changed a lot. You can now customize
the variable `erc-modules' and define once and for all which
extension modules you want to use. This unfortunately may require
- you to change your current erc initialisation code a bit, if you
- have some existing customsations. On the other hand, this change
+ you to change your current erc initialization code a bit, if you
+ have some existing customizations. On the other hand, this change
makes the configuration of extension modules a lot easier for new
users. In theory, you should be able to configure all aspects of
ERC by using the customize interface, you should no longer really
** erc is switching to global-minor-modes for activation of submodules.
This allows you to customize such a mode and get automatic loading of
-the module. No longer putting a lot of require statments in .emacs.
-At least this is the long-term plan, not all modules are converted
-yet.
+the module. No longer putting a lot of require statements in .emacs.
+At least this is the long-term plan, not all modules are converted yet.
** The most important user visible change is that you now need to activate
erc-completion-mode, to get TAB completion. The new completion code
'erc-stamp), you can customize the variable `erc-timestamp-mode', and
the rest should be automatic.
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