Re: ERC: Scroll to bottom by default

["Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>]

Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com> writes:

> This has always bugged me and I keep forgetting how to set it, since
> there are two variables that need to be changed. By default, ERC
> buffers "scroll" just like other Emacs buffers, i.e. when point
> reaches below the currently visible portion of the buffer (e.g. when a
> new message arrives in an ERC buffer), it scrolls half a buffer
> length.

This is very annoying indeed, specially in eshell.

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

I don't know a way of fixing it on eshell. There is

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/EshellScrolling

(which curiously mentions ERC as well) but either the recipes do not
work on all cases or requires patching the eshell sources.

-- 
Óscar