Re: rcirc.el

[Ryan Yeske]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:

> I haven't looked closely at the code, but a few questions come to mind:
>
>> ;; rcirc is a lightweight irc client for Emacs
>
> A more elaborate "commentary" section in the code would be good.
> As a minimum it should explain:
>
> What is IRC?
> Does it work only with irc.freenode.net ?

OK, I will expand this.  It works with any irc server.

>> ;; Tested with GNU Emacs 21.3
>
> If you want it to be included with the next release, you should
> test it with the latest CVS Emacs (to be released as 22.1).
>
> But I guess you already did that, as the code will use
> make-network-process when available ...

It is well tested under both 21.3 and emacs-cvs (22).  I'll update
this text, or should I just remove it?

>> (require 'cl)
>
> Do you really require cl at runtime or just at compile time?

How can I find out?  If I only use macros from the cl package?  I must
admit I don't really understand when to use (eval-when-compile
(require 'cl)) and simply (require 'cl).

Thanks for your comments.

Ryan