* bug#15377: 24.1; erc-mode-line-update-buffer can mishandle updates when there is no topic
@ 2013-09-14 0:32 Vivek Dasmohapatra
2013-09-14 23:33 ` Glenn Morris
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Vivek Dasmohapatra @ 2013-09-14 0:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 15377
Very rarely, erc can start throwing lots of errors inside its process
sentinel - a couple of users on #emacs also reported it recently:
[conversation edited for noise]
<xxxx> sigh, periodically, my erc … "error in process
filter: Invalid format character: `%o'"
<yyyy> xxxx: I've seen this error a few times before--typically when my
bouncer has just experienced connection difficulties and is in a
disconnect/reconnect thrash.
I tracked it down to:
erc-header-line-format: "%n on %t (%m,%l) %o"
And in erc-update-mode-line-buffer:
(let ((spec (format-spec-make
⋮
?o (erc-controls-strip erc-channel-topic)
And then:
(format-spec erc-header-line-format spec)
But erc-controls-strip can return nil, which does make format-spec
choke on "%o", since it does not differentiate between a spec with
no ?o element and one containing ?o nil.
The following should fix it:
--- a/lisp/erc/erc.el
+++ b/lisp/erc/erc.el
@@ -6210,7 +6210,7 @@ if `erc-away' is non-nil."
?m (erc-format-channel-modes)
?n (or (erc-current-nick) "")
?N (erc-format-network)
- ?o (erc-controls-strip erc-channel-topic)
+ ?o (or (erc-controls-strip erc-channel-topic) "")
?p (erc-port-to-string erc-session-port)
?s (erc-format-target-and/or-server)
?S (erc-format-target-and/or-network)
I have no real test recipe, since the error is intermittent and
I don't know what makes the erc-channel-topic degrade to nil,
but you can try this:
M-: (let (erc-channel-topic) (erc-update-mode-line-buffer (current-buffer)))
with an erc-buffer current.
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* bug#15377: 24.1; erc-mode-line-update-buffer can mishandle updates when there is no topic
2013-09-14 0:32 bug#15377: 24.1; erc-mode-line-update-buffer can mishandle updates when there is no topic Vivek Dasmohapatra
@ 2013-09-14 23:33 ` Glenn Morris
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Morris @ 2013-09-14 23:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 15377-done
Version: 24.4
Thanks; applied.
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