Trouble getting ERC tracking to work when use IRC

Trouble getting ERC tracking to work when use IRC

[Chris Seberino]

ERC works great and I love doing IRC in emacs.  I tried to add ERC tracking so that I can be notified on modeline in other buffers when there is activity in an IRC channel..

I added this but I never see anything change on a modeline...

  
(require 'erc-track)
 
(erc-track-mode t)
(setq-default erc-track-shorten-names nil)
(setq-default erc-track-exclude-types '("JOIN" "NICK" "PART" "QUIT" "MODE"
                                        "324" "329" "332" "333" "353" "477"))
(setq-default erc-hide-list '("JOIN" "PART" "QUIT" "NICK"))

Am I doing something wrong?  What should I expect?

Thanks!

Chris

Re: Trouble getting ERC tracking to work when use IRC

[Bob Proulx]

Chris Seberino wrote:
> ERC works great and I love doing IRC in emacs.  I tried to add ERC
> tracking so that I can be notified on modeline in other buffers when
> there is activity in an IRC channel..
> 
> I added this but I never see anything change on a modeline...

The default erc settings without setting anything special work okay
for me and the modeline already shows the nofications of activity.
I am not an expert user of erc however.

Perhaps you are doing something to the modeline that prevents this
from showing up?

What version of emacs are you using?

Bob

Re: Trouble getting ERC tracking to work when use IRC

[Christian Seberino]

Thanks!  You were right!  My modeline customizations messed up the erc 
tracking.
That was the problem.

How do you make modeline modifications play nice with erc tracking?

cs
On 08/09/2015 06:31 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Chris Seberino wrote:
>> ERC works great and I love doing IRC in emacs.  I tried to add ERC
>> tracking so that I can be notified on modeline in other buffers when
>> there is activity in an IRC channel..
>>
>> I added this but I never see anything change on a modeline...
> The default erc settings without setting anything special work okay
> for me and the modeline already shows the nofications of activity.
> I am not an expert user of erc however.
>
> Perhaps you are doing something to the modeline that prevents this
> from showing up?
>
> What version of emacs are you using?
>
> Bob

Re: Trouble getting ERC tracking to work when use IRC

[Christian Seberino]

Look like I found it.  For erc tracking you need to add "%M" to mode 
line customizations.

Cheers,

cs

On 08/09/2015 10:55 PM, Christian Seberino wrote:
> Thanks! You were right!  My modeline customizations messed up the erc 
> tracking.
> That was the problem.
>
> How do you make modeline modifications play nice with erc tracking?
>
> cs
> On 08/09/2015 06:31 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
>> Chris Seberino wrote:
>>> ERC works great and I love doing IRC in emacs.  I tried to add ERC
>>> tracking so that I can be notified on modeline in other buffers when
>>> there is activity in an IRC channel..
>>>
>>> I added this but I never see anything change on a modeline...
>> The default erc settings without setting anything special work okay
>> for me and the modeline already shows the nofications of activity.
>> I am not an expert user of erc however.
>>
>> Perhaps you are doing something to the modeline that prevents this
>> from showing up?
>>
>> What version of emacs are you using?
>>
>> Bob
>

Re: Trouble getting ERC tracking to work when use IRC

[Bob Proulx]

> Look like I found it.  For erc tracking you need to add "%M" to mode line
> customizations.

Yay!  Thanks for letting us know how it all worked out. :-)

Bob