> > When my network connection drops out, ERC loses its connection and
> > attempts to reconnect. I see the message "connecting to server
> > irc.freenode.net 6777..." in the minibuffer and Emacs becomes
> > unresponsive.
> ...
> I made a patch that increments erc-server-reconnect-count before calling
> erc-server-reconnect instead, and resets it only when the connection is
> really ready, that is, in erc-connection-established.

Hi,

Could someone please review this patch by Thomas Riccardi and Vivek
Dasmohapatra?  The full description of the problem can be viewed at

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=5650

Thanks.