Comments on: Bitlbee and Emacs

By: quodlibetor

quodlibetor — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:13:52 +0000

Thanks for the tips, nearly all of them ended up in my .emacs.

I modified your erc-notify-on-msg to message me for any private bitlbee buffers, and to stick the name of the sender as the header line:

(defun erc-notify-on-msg (msg)
“Send a message via notify-send if a message specifically to me”
(if (or (string-match “MY-NICK:” msg)
(and (string= “localhost” erc-session-server)
(not (string-match “\\*\\*\\*” msg))
(not (string-match “\” msg))))
(let ((nameless-msg (replace-regexp-in-string “^\ ” “” msg)))
(shell-command (concat “notify-send \”" (buffer-name) “\” \”" nameless-msg “\”")))))
(add-hook ‘erc-insert-pre-hook ‘erc-notify-on-msg)

Since I have erc open up a new buffer for chats this works pretty well for me. If you’ve got bitlbee set up to use a fancy server instead of localhost you’d need to change that line, but otherwise it should work.

By: Seth

Seth — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:41:40 +0000

And to follow up with what Peter said, putting

(setq erc-auto-query ‘buffer)

will create a new buffer for each IM to you.

By: Seth

Seth — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:08:36 +0000

EmacsWiki has a couple of methods for getting alerts when you get a private message.

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ErcPageMe

I opted for the my-erc-page-me-PRIVMSG route.

By: Peter Jones

Peter Jones — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:08:03 +0000

Nathaniel, you don’t have to worry about prepending nicks in the public channel if you start a new private message with people. This will place each IM conversation into a dedicated buffer. It also helps you figure out who just talked to you in IM.

You do this in the public channel by issuing a “/q nick” command. I also have ERC configured to create a new buffer when someone messages me.