Re: Towards a cleaner build: erc.el

[Stefan Monnier]

> The problem here is that `str' is in the public calling convention on
> `erc-pre-send-hook': 
[...]
> That's a quite, er, uhm, strange way of doing it, but...  The
> traditional way is to offer a filter function that can alter the string.

I typically use (with-no-warnings (defvar str)) within the function
(but before the run-hook) for that.

> Would a way forward here be to obsolete this hook variable and add a new
> function along those lines?

I haven't looked in detail, but an erc-pre-send-function that filters the
string sounds good, yes.


        Stefan