Re: [PATCH] rcirc: support TLS/SSL and arbitrary connection method

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>]

> I'm writing you to submit a patch for rcirc.el to give it support for
> SSL connections.

Thank you.  But I'm afraid you're just a few weeks late:

   revno: 104199
   committer: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
   branch nick: trunk
   timestamp: Wed 2011-05-11 23:25:58 -0300
   message:
     * lisp/net/rcirc.el: Add support for SSL/TLS connections.
     (rcirc-server-alist): New field `encryption'.
     (rcirc): Check `encryption' settings.
     (rcirc-connect): New arg `encryption'.  Use open-network-stream.
     Merge make-local-variable into `set'.
     (rcirc--connection-open-p): New function.
     (rcirc-send-string, rcirc-clean-up-buffer): Use it to handle case where
     the process is not a network process (e.g. running gnutls-cli).
     (set-rcirc-decode-coding-system, set-rcirc-encode-coding-system):
     Make rcirc-(en|de)code-coding-system local here.
     (rcirc-mode): Merge make-local-variable into `set'.
     (rcirc-parent-buffer): Make permanent buffer-local.
     (rcirc-multiline-minor-mode): Don't do it here.
     (rcirc-switch-to-server-buffer): Don't switch to a random buffer if
     there's no server buffer.

> The last 2 chunks of the patch are meant to strip the IRC colors.
> Not really part of the "connection" patch, but IMHO useful.

Could you describe a bit more what this is about (I'm not a regular IRC
user)?  I can't remember seeing those C-c escape sequences, when do they
appear, what are they expected to do?  Should we really strip them, or
would it be even better to turn them into faces?

> In case you're interested, I signed the Emacs papers some years ago.

If you could send a new patch based on the latest code to provide the
remaining features, I'd be happy to install it.


        Stefan