From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to IRC? Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 02:04:29 +0100 Message-ID: <87bn9p51ia.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87d1ul64ix.fsf@debian.uxu> <87k2oe5rwr.fsf@ulb.ac.be> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450314316 3297 80.91.229.3 (17 Dec 2015 01:05:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 01:05:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 17 02:05:04 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a9N0B-00020h-FE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2015 02:05:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50160 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a9N0A-0000E9-KX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2015 20:05:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35400) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a9Mzz-0000Dc-Ij for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2015 20:04:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a9Mzw-00047f-Cf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2015 20:04:51 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:43840) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a9Mzw-00047a-6D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2015 20:04:48 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a9Mzp-0001Ps-2z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2015 02:04:41 +0100 Original-Received: from nl106-137-244.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2015 02:04:41 +0100 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-244.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2015 02:04:41 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-244.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:gRQ/ChGQtDMBqDzrlb/jNmAPso8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108421 Archived-At: Nicolas Richard writes: > An IRC client can have bugs No :) > That being said, I never noticed any such > disconnection problem with rcirc, which I use. > Some people on #emacs use ERC with a very impressive > uptime too, so I doubt rcirc or ERC have this sort > of bugs. I doubt that as well. Anyway, look (!) - uptime again! It is such a useful thing :) > OTOH, since emacs has only one lisp thread, when > emacs is doing something, it will most likely stop > responding to ping requests and, if it emacs is busy > long enough, this can lead to disconnection. > A common suggestion (even though I don't follow it) > is to use a separate emacs session only for IRC. That might be a good solution with respect to uptime but not with respect to using Emacs and ERC/IRC to do useful things. Say that you work on some source and you want to yank it into the ERC buffer. Or the other way around. I'd say in general it is preferrable to do it the other way around - keep everything including ERC/IRC in the regular Emacs session, and then, for the rare occasions when you use Emacs for batch/DP stuff that might block IRC, put *that* in its own session. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573