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Re: rcirc vs ERC (was: Mostly curtail font-lock-mode)


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: rcirc vs ERC (was: Mostly curtail font-lock-mode)
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2021 13:14:15 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Tassilo Horn wrote:

>>> looks nice
>>
>> We have that on ERC?
>>
>>   https://dataswamp.org/~incal/figures/emacs/erc-gnus.png
>>
>> Does this work?
>
> What? A fontified banner? I don't know and I don't care.

Ha, no, I meant the URL. I couldn't get there but it seemed
you got it.

But you mention a fair point. Your client is possibly
under-featured with respect to fortified banners not the
least...

> indented. I think in ERC it looks like
>
>     user: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed
>           do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna
>           aliqua. Nullam vehicula ipsum a arcu cursus. Ac tortor
>           dignissim convallis aenean et tortor at risus
>           viverra. Convallis posuere morbi leo urna.
> longuser: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed
>           do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna
>           aliqua. Nullam vehicula ipsum a arcu cursus. Ac tortor
>           dignissim convallis aenean et tortor at risus
>           viverra. Convallis posuere morbi leo urna.

That's erc-fill-static in erc-fill-function. But "Original
value was actually ‘erc-fill-variable’"

> whereas it looks like this in rcirc:
>
> user: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do
>       eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Nullam
>       vehicula ipsum a arcu cursus. Ac tortor dignissim convallis aenean
>       et tortor at risus viverra. Convallis posuere morbi leo urna.
> longuser: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed
>           do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna
>           aliqua. Nullam vehicula ipsum a arcu cursus. Ac tortor
>           dignissim convallis aenean et tortor at risus
>           viverra. Convallis posuere morbi leo urna.
>
> Of course, that's just a personal preference, and probably
> you can configure that behavior in ERC anyhow.

Hm, interesting, I also think that is better!

Can you find it here?

erc-fill-function is a variable defined in ‘erc-fill.el’.
Its value is ‘erc-fill-static’
Original value was ‘erc-fill-variable’

  This variable may be risky if used as a file-local variable.
  You can customize this variable.

Documentation:
Function to use for filling messages.

Variable Filling with an ‘erc-fill-prefix’ of nil:

<shortnick> this is a very very very long message with no
            meaning at all

Variable Filling with an ‘erc-fill-prefix’ of four spaces:

<shortnick> this is a very very very long message with no
    meaning at all

Static Filling with ‘erc-fill-static-center’ of 27:

                <shortnick> foo bar baz
         <a-very-long-nick> foo bar baz quuuuux
                <shortnick> this is a very very very long message with no
                            meaning at all

These two styles are implemented using ‘erc-fill-variable’ and
‘erc-fill-static’.  You can, of course, define your own filling
function.  Narrowing to the region in question is in effect while your
function is called.

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