Second try, reconnecting to servers now works again and the proper server
names are displayed.

(Also I forgot to mention before, patch applies
to ea88d874a4f3ecbfdb5fa79dcb3ea90927cebec2 )

Cheers, Dave.

On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 11:00 PM, Dave Barker <kzar@kzar.co.uk> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> First time contributing to Emacs (or at least attempting to), sorry if I'm
> doing this wrong somehow.
>
> I wanted the ability to give rcirc servers an alias name, to be displayed
> instead of the actual server name. The reason is that I use the ZNC IRC
> bouncer to connect to multiple servers and this means, as far as rcirc is
> concerned, that I have 4+ servers with the same server name - my ZNC
> server's hostname. This breaks rcirc, it won't let you connect to the same
> server twice, but even if it did things would quickly get confusing. (Up
> until now I've had to add bogus entries in my hosts file to point each IRC
> server's hostname to my ZNC server, but that's clearly quite a hack!)
>
> So the attached patch adds an optional :server-alias keyword parameter
> to rcirc-server-alist that allows you to specify a friendlier name for a
> rcirc server. The name is then used when messages are displayed, and for
> buffer naming purposes. If not specified the real server name is used
> instead just like before. (For people who are used to GitHub, here's my
> feature branch <https://github.com/kzar/emacs/tree/rcirc-server-alias>.)
>
> It would be great to get some feedback on this, the patch is working great
> for me but I'm inexperienced with elisp and this is the first time I've had
> a look at the rcirc code.
>
> Cheers, Dave.
>