Re: rcirc fails to authenticate with bitlbee

[David Hansen]

On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 08:38:18 -0600 Dieter Deyke wrote:

> In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
>  of 2006-04-20 on DEYKE1
> X server distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
> configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4)'
>
> rcirc fails to authenticate with bitlbee.  The error message is:
>
> 08:36 *** 401 &bitlbee Nick does not exist
>
> The following patch fixes the problem for me:
>
> *** old-rcirc.el      Sun Apr 23 08:30:37 2006
> --- new-rcirc.el      Sun Apr 23 08:31:03 2006
> ***************
> *** 2140,2146 ****
>               ((equal method 'bitlbee)
>                (rcirc-send-string
>                 process
> !               (concat "PRIVMSG &bitlbee :identify " (car args))))
>               (t
>                (message "No %S authentication method defined"
>                         method))))))))
> --- 2140,2146 ----
>               ((equal method 'bitlbee)
>                (rcirc-send-string
>                 process
> !               (concat "PRIVMSG #bitlbee :identify " (car args))))
>               (t
>                (message "No %S authentication method defined"
>                         method))))))))
>

>From http://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/changelog.html :

Version 1.0 (released 2005-12-04) hilights:

    [...]

    * Renamed the control channel to &bitlbee, mainly to
      avoid confusion with #bitlbee on OFTC.

So probably updating your bitlbee is a better option than
patching emacs.

David