On Mon, Dec 06 2010, Aidan Gauland wrote:

> *Is* there even a way to do this in ERC?  I certainly hope so, and
> that I simply haven't found it.  If there is *NOT* a way to to this in
> ERC, then I am willing to add this capability.

I do this without any problem with ERC and ZNC.
Try to evaluate something like:

  (erc
   :server "someserver"
   :nick "jd"
   :password "bla")

That should work.

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Julien Danjou
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