On Tue, May 31 2011, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> 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?

C-c are escape code for colors. I think they came with mIRC first, but
well, I don't know for sure.

See: http://www.mirc.com/colors.html

I don't think they should be stripped, but they should be rendered using
faces as you suggest. And this probably be configurable with a
defcustom.

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