ERC user mode support

ERC user mode support

[Kelvin White]

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I'm a long time user of irssi and an irc oper. I started using emacs about
3 years ago, but I couldn't use erc because it was lacking functionality in
regards to supporting user modes beyond op and voice (+o, +v). So, after
googling the issue and finding nothing of real value, I decided to add it
myself, and finally make the switch to erc. I have working code to add this
feature, but I'm curious of any suggestions you may have. Is there any
plans to add this feature in the future, and If so, what would be the
requirements, and process of contributing to the project.

Thanks

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Re: ERC user mode support

[Tim Visher]

On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Kelvin White <kelvin.white77@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm a long time user of irssi and an irc oper. I started using emacs about 3
> years ago, but I couldn't use erc because it was lacking functionality in
> regards to supporting user modes beyond op and voice (+o, +v). So, after
> googling the issue and finding nothing of real value, I decided to add it
> myself, and finally make the switch to erc. I have working code to add this
> feature, but I'm curious of any suggestions you may have. Is there any plans
> to add this feature in the future, and If so, what would be the
> requirements, and process of contributing to the project.

Probably best to include your patch.

Re: ERC user mode support

[Mario Lang]

Kelvin White <kelvin.white77@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm a long time user of irssi and an irc oper. I started using emacs about
> 3 years ago, but I couldn't use erc because it was lacking functionality in
> regards to supporting user modes beyond op and voice (+o, +v).

Excuse my ignorance please, but can you be a bit more details?  It is
years ago that I knew the IRC protocl by heart.  But I vaguely remember
that user-modes as well as channel-modes did not need any special client
side support?  /op is really just an alias for /mode nick +flag, IIRC.

> So, after googling the issue and finding nothing of real value, I
> decided to add it myself, and finally make the switch to erc. I have
> working code to add this feature, but I'm curious of any suggestions
> you may have. Is there any plans to add this feature in the future,
> and If so, what would be the requirements, and process of contributing
> to the project.

I don't see any reason to not add this, if special code is actually
required.  Since ERC is part of Emacs, the same contribution
requirements as with Emacs apply.

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CYa,
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Re: ERC user mode support

[Stefan Monnier]

> Is there any plans to add this feature in the future,

I think it's unlikely that someone else has been working on such support
at the same time as you (tho it's of course possible).  So if there are
such plans, maybe your code will be the realization of this plan.

> and If so, what would be the requirements, and process of contributing
> to the project.

Send the patch (e.g. via M-x report-emacs-bug so it gets a tracking
number), and if the patch is not trivial, we'll need some copyright
paperwork before we can accept the patch.  ERC has no dedicated
maintainer any more, IIRC, so if you're interested you could take over ;-)


        Stefan