bug#14625: Erc nick coloring broken

[Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com>]

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Frankly, it was a very long time ago, I don't remember the bug, and I don't
even use ERC anymore, so if nobody else complains, you can close the bug
report.

On 27 December 2015 at 22:12, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

> Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I use option 2 + option 3 from
> > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ErcNickColors to color nicknames of
> > people in ERC. I updated to trunk recently, and nick coloring broke (I
> > only get plain old white). I bisected it to
> >
> > Author: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> > Date:   Wed May 29 20:19:04 2013 -0700
> >
> >     * erc/erc-backend.el: Require erc at run-time too (silences
> compilation)
> >
> > I think a bad interaction develops because I use erc-timestamp with
> > erc-hide-timestamps set to t. What seems to happen is that the while
> > loop in "option 3" seems to be stuck inside the timestamp region, and
> > never goes around to coloring the text.
> >
> > I have tried to debug it but failed, as I have no idea as to what
> > exactly this commit does. Any pointers on how I should proceed?
>
> Can you post a recipe for how to reproduce this bug?  That is, starting
> from "emacs -Q", what settings do you do, and what's the expected result?
>
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