[Erc-discuss] Re: M-x erc RET

[Michael Olson]

Michael Olson <address@hidden> writes:

> I've created a 5.2 release branch to make this process easier.  It
> should have all of the file-rename changes that we made for Emacs,
> this change, the auto-away changes (I've still got one or two
> uncommitted fixes, IIRC) but not the "kill IRC process due to
> time-out" change, since that one isn't as good as I want it yet.

On second thought, I guess 5.2 will have that change, because I
already applied it to the 5.1 branch.  Here are some changes that need
to be made to it before the 5.2 release.

 - Figure out whether Emacs was so busy (example: fetching Gnus
   messages) that it was unable to process the server's ping reply.
   I'm guessing that this is possible, because I get a lot of
   disconnects after a long busy period.

 - Make a customizable erc-server-timeout option (separate from
   erc-server-send-ping-interval) that is used to determine whether to
   disconnect a hung server.  This will allow servers to optionally
   miss one or two pings before disconnect happens.

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