Re: How to IRC?

["B. T. Raven" <btraven@nihilo.net>]

On 12/16/2015 9:34 AM, Nicolas Richard wrote:
> Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:
>
>> "B. T. Raven" <btraven@nihilo.net> writes:
>>
>>> Anyway, wait for more authoritative suggestions.
>>> Often I have to fall back on Chatzilla or another
>>> client when dal.net won't connect. I don't know if
>>> the problem is in one of my Emacs settings or what.
>>
>> Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> writes:
>>
>>> irc in emacs gets disconnected every time when
>>> connecting to freenode.net which is where erc goes
>>> to connect. Why this is, I don't know.
>>
>> Okaaay...
>>
>> In theory as well as practice, unless practice is at
>> an embarrassingly low level (and a wierd one at that),
>> the IRC client shouldn't one bit influence the status
>> of IRC as a network, and the client should be able to
>> connect to any server that any other client is able to
>> connect to.
>
> An IRC client can have bugs (e.g. fail to respond to PING requests from
> the IRC server for some reason), leading to it being disconnected more
> often.
>
> That being said, I never noticed any such disconnection problem with
> rcirc, which I use. Some people on #emacs use ERC with a very impressive
> uptime too, so I doubt rcirc or ERC have this sort of bugs.
>
> OTOH, since emacs has only one lisp thread, when emacs is doing
> something, it will most likely stop responding to ping requests and, if
> it emacs is busy long enough, this can lead to disconnection. A common
> suggestion (even though I don't follow it) is to use a separate emacs
> session only for IRC.
>

Thanks Nicolas. Whenever I have the problem, Emacs shouldn't be busy 
with any thing other than holding the contents of 5-10 text buffers in 
memory. The problem is not disconnection but failing to connect (about 
20% of the time. If erc connects to dal.net, it will likely stay 
connected. Also, I have always been able to connect with Chatzilla when 
Emacs (erc) is not working. If I figure out the problem I'll post an 
explanation but I may not devote much time to it since irc represents 
much less than 1% of my computer usage in any given week.

Thanks again,

Ed