Package:  emacs
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

	I find it quite convenient to be able to make the *rcirc debug*
	buffer read-only, so that I won’t be able to change it by
	accident.  This of course requires the rcirc-debug function to
	use inhibit-read-only.

	Another usability tweak is to restore point after insertion –
	unless it was at the end of the (visible portion of the) buffer
	before.  (Hence allowing the buffer to scroll normally after
	end-of-buffer is used.)

	Also, while we’re at, %Y-%m-%d can be replaced with the
	equivalent %F in the format-time-string argument; and concat
	is useless as ‘insert’ effectively concatenates its string
	arguments already.

	I’m somewhat unsure if this change is NEWS-worthy; if so,
	I suggest the following entry.

** rcirc

+++
*** The 'rcirc-debug-buffer' can now be made read-only; it will be
ignored when adding debug text to it.  Also, the point will not be
moved, unless it's set to the end of the visible portion of the buffer.

	Please thus consider the patch MIMEd.

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FSF associate member #7257  np. Funiculì, funiculà — Luciano Pavarotti