After upgrading to latest version of emacs-snapshot, rcirc notifications are broken. Basically (rcirc-track-minor-mode 1) doesn't do what it's supposed to do. When a new message shows up in an rcirc channel, the minor mode briefly shows the channel name in the notification, only to disappear soon after. So rcirc-next-active-buffer stops working. If a full copy of my .emacs should be necessary to debug this, there's one available at https://github.com/dLuna/config/blob/master/.emacs Cheers, Daniel In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.2) of 2013-09-01 on wani02, modified by Debian (emacs-snapshot package, version 2:20130831-1~ppa1~precise1) Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11103000 System Description: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS Configured using: `configure --build x86_64-linux-gnu --host x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes --enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs-snapshot:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.3.50/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.3.50/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp --without-compress-info --with-crt-dir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ --with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-imagemagick=yes 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=5000 -g -O2' CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 'LDFLAGS=-g -Wl,--as-needed -znocombreloc'' Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: rcirc Minor modes in effect: desktop-save-mode: t rcirc-track-minor-mode: t show-paren-mode: t iswitchb-mode: t tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t use-hard-newlines: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: C-c C-SPC C-c C-SPC C-c C-a W h e r e SPC d o SPC I SPC l o o k SPC f o r SPC b u g s SPC i n SPC e m a c s - s n a p s h o p t SPC / p e r e p o r t SPC / SPC b u g s C-e ? C-c C-SPC C-x C-f v C-g C-x b v 2 C-g C-c C-SPC C-x b e m a c s C-c C-SPC C-c C-SPC : - ) r c i r c SPC n o SPC l o n g e r M y SPC n o t i f i c a t i o n SPC i c o n SPC i n SPC r c i r c SPC t i n h i n k g SPC i n SPC t h e SPC m o d e SPC b a r C-e h a s SPC s h c h a n n e l s SPC s h o w i n g SPC u p SPC a n d SPC t h e SPC n d i n d SPC SPC d i s s p a p e a r SPC o n SPC m e . SPC : - ( M-x r e p o r t b u g e m Recent messages: (No changes need to be saved) Mark set Quit [3 times] No IRC activity. No unread messages Mark set [2 times] Making completion list... Quit [2 times] No IRC activity. Type C-u C-c C-SPC for low priority activity. Making completion list... 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