Re: Ability to disable alternating face in erc-nicks

[J.P.]

Trevor Arjeski <tmarjeski@gmail.com> writes:

> Trevor Arjeski <tmarjeski@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Well, per usual, to make myself look like a complete fool, I immediately
> found a hackfix after sending my last email.
>
>   modified   erc-track.el
>   @@ -944,7 +944,7 @@ NEW-FACES has a cdr."
>        (or (and erc-track--alt-normals-function
>                 (funcall erc-track--alt-normals-function
>                          cur-face choice new-faces normals))
>   -        (and (equal choice cur-face)
>   +        (and (not (equal choice cur-face))
>                 (gethash choice normals)
>                 (catch 'face
>                   (progn
>   
> Simply adding that 'not' and setting `erc-nicks-track-faces t' (to not
> override `erc-track--alt-normals-function' but still use nick colors)
> seems to sort of do what I want.
>
> Would still be nice to have an actual config to toggle this though!

One possible implementation:

  https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=67767#29

Alternative approaches welcome (though please reply to that bug thread
if discussing code in depth). Thanks.