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: New option that determines the
-amount of time, in seconds, that ERC will wait between successive
-reconnect attempts.
+*** 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
-*** Channel lists (erc-list.el)
+*** Button (erc-button.el)
-**** This has been removed from Emacs 22, since a major contributor
-to it has not yet assigned changes.
+**** Make <backtab> go to the previous button.
*** Channel tracking (erc-track.el)
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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