Subject: Re: bug#20187: 25.0.50; erc-switch-to-buffer tab completion error

From: Mark Oteiza <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 21:46:34 -0400

Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:

>> erc-switch-to-buffer (C-c C-b in ERC) broken. From emacs -Q:
>
>> 0. M-x toggle-debug-on-error RET
>> 1. M-x erc RET and get connected
>> 2. C-c C-b TAB
>
> I never used ERC (and barely ever used IRC), so if you could expand on
> "and get connected", that would be helpful.

It's sufficient to use the defaults in the interactive prompts for M-x
erc, so:

IRC Server: irc.freenode.net
IRC port: 6667
Nickname: somerandomnick
Password:

is fine.  This should result in a plain (as opposed to TLS) connection
to freenode IRC (Home page <https://freenode.net/>) without logging in or
joining any channels.