On Jun 14, 2013, at 09:09 AM, Michael Albinus wrote:

>> I recently upgraded to Emacs 24.3 from 24.2 in Ubuntu 13.10 and I noticed a
>> weird regression in erc.  When someone pinged my nick, the channel buffer
>> would scroll the current line to the top, so I'd have to manually recenter
>> the buffer to read the scrollback.
>
>This problem has been reported here:
><http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/159200/focus=159828>.
>
>> I'm wondering if anybody has any further ideas about what could be going on.
>
>It is fixed in Emacs' trunk. You could apply that patch.

Thanks for the info!  I'll test the patch and get it applied in Ubuntu.

Cheers,
-Barry