Re: ERC: Scroll to bottom by default

["Edward O'Connor" <hober0@gmail.com>]

> This has always bugged me[...]
> Given the nature of IRC and IM protocols in general, I think most
> people would want to enable scrolltobottom by default and set
> erc-input-line-position to -1,

I disagree. One of the advantages of using IRC (or IM, etc.) in Emacs
is that things act like they're in Emacs. If a buffer started keeping
its last line at the bottom of the window, regardless of mode, that
would be really weird.

> to make it act like pretty much every
> other IRC client out there.

By that argument, we should have kept `erc-prompt-interactive-input',
which moved the ERC prompt out of the buffer and into the minibuffer.
But that UI doesn't fit in with Emacs, so we dropped it.

> I keep forgetting how to set it, since there are two variables that need to be changed.

Maybe the documentation could be improved to make how to do this more clear?


Ted