From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to IRC? Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 20:20:34 -0600 Organization: NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $23.95 Message-ID: References: <87d1ul64ix.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450319126 5491 80.91.229.3 (17 Dec 2015 02:25:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 02:25:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 17 03:25:20 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a9OFr-00086k-Fe for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Dec 2015 03:25:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50443 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a9OFq-0007qt-Kz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2015 21:25:18 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!peer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news4 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 52 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p8997dc13b98f7287472769a6613e52bb8a7b365f5bcce7d5.newsdawg.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 In-Reply-To: X-Received-Bytes: 3075 X-Received-Body-CRC: 278263561 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:216133 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108422 Archived-At: On 12/16/2015 9:34 AM, Nicolas Richard wrote: > Emanuel Berg writes: > >> "B. T. Raven" 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 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