of those releases, the ERC NEWS entries have only been copied below,
and the NEWS.* files were left intact.
-*** New option 'erc-rename-buffers'.
+** New option 'erc-rename-buffers'.
-*** New faces 'erc-my-nick-prefix-face' and 'erc-nick-prefix-face'.
+** New faces 'erc-my-nick-prefix-face' and 'erc-nick-prefix-face'.
-*** 'erc-format-@nick' displays all user modes instead of only op and voice.
+** 'erc-format-@nick' displays all user modes instead of only op and voice.
-*** The display of irc commands in the current buffer has been disabled.
+** The display of irc commands in the current buffer has been disabled.
-*** 'erc-version' now follows the Emacs version.
+** 'erc-version' now follows the Emacs version.
-*** ERC can now hide message types by network or channel.
+** ERC can now hide message types by network or channel.
'erc-hide-list' will hide all messages of the specified type, while
'erc-network-hide-list' and 'erc-channel-hide-list' will only hide the
specified message types for the respective specified targets.
-*** Reconnection is now asynchronous.
+** Reconnection is now asynchronous.
-*** Nick completion is now case-insensitive again after inadvertently
+** Nick completion is now case-insensitive again after inadvertently
being made case-sensitive in Emacs 24.2.
-*** New variable 'erc-default-port-tls' used to connect to TLS IRC
+** New variable 'erc-default-port-tls' used to connect to TLS IRC
servers.
-*** New hook 'erc-insert-done-hook'.
+** New hook 'erc-insert-done-hook'.
This hook is called after strings have been inserted into the buffer,
and is free to alter point and window configurations, as it's not
called from inside a 'save-excursion', as opposed to 'erc-insert-post-hook'.
-*** 'erc-button-google-url' has been renamed to 'erc-button-search-url'
+** 'erc-button-google-url' has been renamed to 'erc-button-search-url'
and its value has been changed to Duck Duck Go.
-*** 'erc-send-pre-hook' and 'erc-send-this' have been obsoleted.
+** 'erc-send-pre-hook' and 'erc-send-this' have been obsoleted.
The user option to use instead to alter text to be sent is now
'erc-pre-send-functions'.
-*** Improve matching/highlighting of nicknames.
+** Improve matching/highlighting of nicknames.
Open and close parenthesis and apostrophe are not considered valid
nick characters anymore, matching the given grammar in RFC 2812
section 2.3.1. This enables correct matching and highlighting of
nicks when they are surrounded by parentheses, like "(nick)", and when
adjacent to an apostrophe, like "nick's".
-*** Set 'erc-button-url-regexp' to 'browse-url-button-regexp'
+** Set 'erc-button-url-regexp' to 'browse-url-button-regexp'
which better handles surrounding pair of parentheses.
-*** New function 'erc-switch-to-buffer-other-window'
+** New function 'erc-switch-to-buffer-other-window'
which is like 'erc-switch-to-buffer', but opens the buffer in another
window.
-*** New function 'erc-track-switch-buffer-other-window'
+** New function 'erc-track-switch-buffer-other-window'
which is like 'erc-track-switch-buffer', but opens the buffer in
another window.
-*** NickServ passwords can now be retrieved from auth-source.
+** NickServ passwords can now be retrieved from auth-source.
The 'erc-use-auth-source-for-nickserv-password' user option enables
querying auth-source for NickServ passwords. To enable this, add the
following to your init file:
(setq erc-use-auth-source-for-nickserv-password t)
-*** NickServ identification now prompts for password last.
+** NickServ identification now prompts for password last.
When 'erc-prompt-for-nickserv-password' is non-nil, the user used to
be unconditionally prompted interactively for a password, regardless
of the value of 'erc-nickserv-passwords', which was effectively
lifted, and the user is interactively prompted last, after the other
identification methods have run.
-*** The '/ignore' command will now ask for a timeout to stop ignoring the user.
+** The '/ignore' command will now ask for a timeout to stop ignoring the user.
Allowed inputs are seconds or ISO8601-like periods like "1h" or "4h30m".
-*** ERC now recognizes 'C-]' for italic text.
+** ERC now recognizes 'C-]' for italic text.
Italic text is displayed in the new 'erc-italic-face'.
-*** erc-match.el now supports 'message' highlight type (not including the nick).
+** erc-match.el now supports 'message' highlight type (not including the nick).
The 'erc-current-nick-highlight-type', 'erc-pal-highlight-type',
'erc-fool-highlight-type', 'erc-keyword-highlight-type', and
'erc-dangerous-host-highlight-type' user options now support a
'message' type for highlighting the entire message but not the
sender's nick.
-*** erc-status-sidebar.el is now part of ERC.
+** erc-status-sidebar.el is now part of ERC.
The 'erc-status-sidebar' package which provides a HexChat-like
activity overview sidebar for joined IRC channels is now part of ERC.
-*** erc-tls now supports specifying a TLS client certificate.
+** erc-tls now supports specifying a TLS client certificate.
The 'erc-tls' function has been updated to allow specifying a TLS
client certificate for authentication, as an alternative to NickServ
password-based authentication. This is referred to as "CertFP" (short
examples on how to specify and use TLS client certificates with
'erc-tls'.
-*** Update IRC-related references to point to Libera.Chat.
+** Update IRC-related references to point to Libera.Chat.
The Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project have moved their
official IRC channels from the Freenode network to Libera.Chat.
For the original announcement and the follow-up update, including
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2021-06/msg00000.html
-*** Add 'erc-track-select-mode-line-face' (obsoletes 'erc-track-find-face').
+** Add 'erc-track-select-mode-line-face' (obsoletes 'erc-track-find-face').
The 'erc-track-find-face' function of the erc-track module has been
declared obsolete and rewritten as 'erc-track-select-mode-line-face',
with different expected arguments (the current and old faces are now
separated) and clearer documentation.
-*** Add '/opme' and '/deopme' convenience commands.
+** Add '/opme' and '/deopme' convenience commands.
The new '/opme' convenience command asks ChanServ to set the operator
status for the current nick in the current channel, and '/deopme'
unsets it.
-*** Add '/wii' convenience command for whois with idle time.
+** Add '/wii' convenience command for whois with idle time.
The new '/wii' convenience command calls the '/whois' command with the
given nick as both arguments, which is useful for displaying the whois
information for the nick along with idle time, even if the nick is on
Using the given nick itself instead of the server it is connected to
is not standardized, but is widely supported across IRC networks.
-*** Add 'erc-bug' command for reporting ERC bugs.
+** Add 'erc-bug' command for reporting ERC bugs.
The new 'erc-bug' command prompts for a subject, and passes it on to
'report-emacs-bug' along with the current ERC version, and adds the
ERC mailing list in Cc.
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