Hi jason,<br>First of all, the version on emacswiki wasn&#39;t the latest. I just updated it to the version I&#39;m using.<br>I don&#39;t really care about copyright assignment, I&#39;m willing to license it with whatever you want. I just did that piece of code for my usage and thought others might find it useful. I would of course love a piece of my code to be included in Emacs. However, I don&#39;t think it should be included in emacs, because its quality is not very good. Here are a few shortcomings I noted :<br>
<br>- It uses a very crude heuristic to move back. Previously it was even cruder, now it is (re-search-backward &quot;^.*&lt;.*&gt;&quot; nil t n), which means it will screw up on /me and such, but will work on multi-line messages (eg if you use wrapping). However, it might also not work on multilines messages with &lt;&gt; in them. Maybe there are some erc internal functions I didn&#39;t see to do that.<br>
<br>- The bar is placed as an overlay on text (underline or overline, currently underline), which means it won&#39;t do well for instance in this case (admire the superb ASCII artwork, to be viewed in monospace of course) :<br>
&lt;smeuuh&gt; bla<br>------------<br>&lt;smeuuh&gt; blablablablablablablablablablabla<br>The ideal would be to put it full width, but I haven&#39;t found how to do that.<br><br>- There are some weird bugs when putting erc-bar-threshold to 0, and/or putting overline instead of underline. I don&#39;t think those are my fault, but I don&#39;t know how to fix them.<br>
<br>- It depends on erc-track<br><br>- It currently has to defadvice erc-track-mode, or chaos would ensue. I remember seing somewhere advice were frowned upon in emacs code.<br><br>- I&#39;m not a very experienced emacs coder, so some bugs may have slipped, and the code may be inelegant.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">If someone is willing to fix these issues though, it would be a nice addition to an already great IRC client.<br>Antoine Levitt<br>2009/1/13  <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jasonspiro@gmail.com">jasonspiro@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi smeuuh,<br>
<br>
I just asked[1] the ERC maintainers to include ErcBar[2] with ERC as a<br>
module enabled by default.<br>
<br>
A) &nbsp;Just to verify: &nbsp;the software license for ErcBar is the license<br>
stated at the bottom of the ErcBar webpage?<br>
<br>
B) &nbsp;Do you know why copyright assignment is important?<br>
<br>
C) &nbsp;I don&#39;t know if ErcBar requires copyright assignment. &nbsp;If it does,<br>
are you willing to sign the form and mail it back to the Free Software<br>
Foundation?<br>
<br>
Please Reply to All.<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance,<br>
-Jason<br>
<br>
^ &nbsp;[1]. &nbsp;<a href="http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1892" target="_blank">http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1892</a><br>
^ &nbsp;[2]. &nbsp;<a href="http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ErcBar" target="_blank">http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ErcBar</a><br>
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