Re: Buffer specific hide-list in ERC

[Brian Adkins <lojicdotcom@gmail.com>]

Brian Adkins <lojicdotcom@gmail.com> writes:

> [...]
> On the off chance that this is useful to anyone else. Here's
> the code I came up with to set the erc-hide-list variable for a
> specific channel:
>
> ; Set the global variable to hide the list of message types
> (setq erc-hide-list '("JOIN" "PART" "QUIT" "MODE" "NICK"))
>
> (add-hook 'erc-join-hook
>           (lambda ()
>             (if (equal "#MyIRCChannel" (buffer-name))
>                 (set (make-local-variable 'erc-hide-list) '()))))
>
> Thanks Edward for pointing me in the right direction. It's amazing how
> extensible and well thought out Emacs is.

It turns out this isn't working as well as I thought. It does set the
variable local to the buffer (as verified by C-h v), but some messages
that I wanted to see were still being hidden even with erc-hide-list
being nil in the buffer.

I tried flipping it so that the default was nil and I set it to the
list above for all channels other than the ones in which I wanted to
see the messages. As an example:

--- snip ---
erc-hide-list is a variable defined in `erc.el'.
Its value is 
("JOIN" "PART" "QUIT" "MODE" "NICK")

Local in buffer #foo; global value is nil
--- snip ---

But I was still seeing "quit", "nick", etc.  messages in the channel.

I suppose it has something to do with erc-hide-list being incompatible
with the buffer local mechanism.

-- 
Brian Adkins
http://lojic.com/