bug#14625: Erc nick coloring broken

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com> writes:

> I use option 2 + option 3 from
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ErcNickColors to color nicknames of
> people in ERC. I updated to trunk recently, and nick coloring broke (I
> only get plain old white). I bisected it to
>
> Author: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Date:   Wed May 29 20:19:04 2013 -0700
>
>     * erc/erc-backend.el: Require erc at run-time too (silences compilation)
>
> I think a bad interaction develops because I use erc-timestamp with
> erc-hide-timestamps set to t. What seems to happen is that the while
> loop in "option 3" seems to be stuck inside the timestamp region, and
> never goes around to coloring the text.
>
> I have tried to debug it but failed, as I have no idea as to what
> exactly this commit does. Any pointers on how I should proceed?

Can you post a recipe for how to reproduce this bug?  That is, starting
from "emacs -Q", what settings do you do, and what's the expected result?

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