10/26/2012 17:21, Stefan Monnier >> emacs -Q >> (require 'erc) >> (setq erc-modules '(truncate)) >> (erc-update-modules) >> (erc :server "irc.freenode.net") >> This worked fine before > > I don't know what "worked" means precisely, but I tried your above > recipe and "it worked" in the sense that it did something which didn't > look like an error. Sorry if this bug report is confused. I've tried to reduce the original bug (which has weird effects on my configuration) to a simple test case. The bug, which I had not described and you could not guess, was that lines were filled. My bad. Please discard my original bug report and consider the following: (require 'erc) (setq erc-modules '()) (erc-update-modules) used to disable buffer filling (try it on a large window). It did so before your commits, not after. You might argue that this is the intended behaviour, because erc-update-modules says that it only enables modules, not disable them (in which case, to disable modules, is one supposed to set erc-modules before requiring erc ? I liked the old way better). I also attach a more involved example of a bug that appeared with your commits, and has nothing to do with erc-modules (I think). I was hoping the fix for the simpler issue would also fix the more involved one, which is why I didn't report it in the first place, but here it is anywyay. The code is supposed to colour the nicks of people (here, all in yellow). The bug results from an interaction with erc-hide-timestamps, which didn't occur before your commits. Sorry again.