Nasty conflicts between erc-match.el and erc-stamp.el

[William Xu <william.xwl@gmail.com>]

Hi!

If erc-stamp-mode is enabled before erc-match-mode,
erc-text-matched-hook will never succeed.  Try below and edebug
my-erc-text-matched-hook.  

  (erc-stamp-mode 1)
  (setq erc-insert-timestamp-function
        'erc-insert-timestamp-left)
                  
  (erc-match-mode 1)

  (defun my-erc-text-matched-hook ()
     (message "matched!"))
  
  (add-hook 'erc-text-matched-hook 'my-erc-text-matched-hook)

The cause is that `erc-match-message' tries to find erc-parsed property
at (point-min) in line: 

  (vector (erc-get-parsed-vector (point-min)))

But when timestamp mode is enabled earlier, it will insert a timestamp
string to the beginning, with its own text properties, in
`erc-timestamp-format-left'.  Hence, this makes erc-match-message fail.  

One not-so-good solution is scan the whole line looking for the
erc-parsed property.  

This nasty thing had annoyed a newcomer, and took a while to figure what
was going wrong...

-- 
William

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