bug#4589: 23.1; ERC reconnection -vs- /disconnect

[Chong Yidong]

Hi Michael,

Could you take a look at this bug report?  Thanks.

(There are a few more bug reports for ERC in the bug tracker; if you
have the time, could you please take a look at them too?  Thanks.)


Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:

> One irc server I use went down and was unavailable.  ERC kept trying
> to reconnect to it -- which is nice, ordinarily I want this.  However,
> in this case, I wanted to prevent ERC from trying to reconnect.
>
> So, I went to the server buffer and typed /disconnect.  This did not
> work, instead ERC gave me an error message (which I no longer have but
> the gist was that there was no connection).
>
> I think /disconnect should work to prevent reconnection in this
> situation.  Instead, the only solution I found was to kill the server
> buffer.