Hello and thanks for your response. By "clobbered", I mean that the original session (and all channels associated with it) stops updating. I also mean that host:port pairs seem to be the internal key for mapping session data structures, as seen below. As for my configuration, I can prove that it's not germane: Start emacs with no config. n.b.: the exact usernames in the following snippets are not important, just that they are different. ---- $ emacs -Q M-x erc RET irc.freenode.net RET 6667 RET testuser1 RET ---- So far, so good. We have a session. ---- M-x erc RET irc.freenode.net RET 6667 RET testuser2 RET ---- You should notice that the 'freenode' buffer has been reused and that the original session cannot be reached. My guess is that this is an original ERC design limitation, but it probably ought to be addressed. On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 8:32 PM Brett Gilio wrote: > > Emacs Watcher writes: > > > When the user starts a second ERC session to the same host / > > port, the > > first one will be clobbered and stop communicating. > > > > Hi, > > Thank you for your message. My "clobbered" what precisely do you > mean? > Is the buffer broken, or is the process being hung? This is good > information for us to have. > > Also, if you could share your configuration you have defined for > ERC > that would be quite helpful. > > Best, > > > -- > Brett M. Gilio > Free Software Foundation, Member > https://parabola.nu | https://emacs.org >