[PATCH] Fix ERC automatic re-connection behavior...

[Victor J. Orlikowski]

The existing code to handle automatic re-connection in ERC only runs
once, then exits. The following patch ensures that re-connection
behavior functions as-documented.

>From 21cde8f74d61d0e30f37f74b6d4084f3159dfdcd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Victor J. Orlikowski" <address@hidden>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 13:12:55 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Fix auto-reconnect to work properly again.

---
 lisp/erc/erc-backend.el | 32 ++++++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lisp/erc/erc-backend.el b/lisp/erc/erc-backend.el
index 8eac2e1..b30c484 100644
--- a/lisp/erc/erc-backend.el
+++ b/lisp/erc/erc-backend.el
@@ -607,10 +607,20 @@ Make sure you are in an ERC buffer when running this."
         (erc-open erc-session-server erc-session-port erc-server-current-nick
                   erc-session-user-full-name t erc-session-password)))))
 
-(defun erc-server-delayed-reconnect (buffer)
-  (if (buffer-live-p buffer)
-    (with-current-buffer buffer
-      (erc-server-reconnect))))
+(defun erc-server-background-reconnect (buffer)
+  (condition-case err
+      (progn
+        (setq erc-server-reconnecting nil
+              erc-server-reconnect-count (1+ erc-server-reconnect-count))
+        (if (buffer-live-p buffer)
+            (with-current-buffer buffer
+              (erc-server-reconnect))))
+    (error (unless (integerp erc-server-reconnect-attempts)
+             (message "%s ... %s"
+                      "Reconnecting until we succeed"
+                      "kill the ERC server buffer to stop"))
+           (run-at-time erc-server-reconnect-timeout nil
+                        #'erc-server-background-reconnect buffer))))
 
 (defun erc-server-filter-function (process string)
   "The process filter for the ERC server."
@@ -676,18 +686,8 @@ EVENT is the message received from the closed connection 
process."
               (erc-update-mode-line)
               (set-buffer-modified-p nil))
           ;; reconnect
-          (condition-case nil
-              (progn
-                (setq erc-server-reconnecting   nil
-                      erc-server-reconnect-count (1+ 
erc-server-reconnect-count))
-                (setq delay erc-server-reconnect-timeout)
-                (run-at-time delay nil
-                             #'erc-server-delayed-reconnect buffer))
-            (error (unless (integerp erc-server-reconnect-attempts)
-                     (message "%s ... %s"
-                              "Reconnecting until we succeed"
-                              "kill the ERC server buffer to stop"))
-                   (erc-server-delayed-reconnect buffer))))))))
+          (run-at-time nil nil
+                       #'erc-server-background-reconnect buffer))))))
 
 (defun erc-process-sentinel-1 (event buffer)
   "Called when `erc-process-sentinel' has decided that we're disconnecting.
-- 
2.10.1 (Apple Git-78)

Best,
Victor
-- 
Victor J. Orlikowski <> address@hidden