ERC Unable to communicate with services

[ankhers]

System Info

• OS: darwin
• Emacs: 24.5.1
• Spacemacs: 0.105.9
• Spacemacs branch: master (rev. 0562f05)
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Editing style: vim
• Completion: helm
• Layers:

(erc)

I have disabled all layers but erc for testing this. I also tested for this issue on the develop branch.

When using ERC, I seem to be unable to communicate with any of the services within freenode and mozilla (nickserv, chanserv, etc).

To reproduce, enable the erc layer, SPC a i E use either irc.freenode.net or irc.mozilla.org, port 6697, whatever username, whatever password (or none).

Once you connect, /query nickserv, a new buffer should open. simply typing help should have nickserv respond to you with its options. I receive no messages.

Oddly enough, if I (erc-services-mode -1) in my dotspacemacs/userconfig, I am still unable to speak with the services.

However, if I edit the erc layer and remove (erc-services-mode 1), restart emacs, I actually get a response from nickserv.

I'm unsure as to what is happening, but if I start up emacs without a config (emacs -Q), enable erc-services-mode and try to talk to nickserv, it works perfectly fine.

[jellelicht]

I can confirm this behaviour on the current version of spacemacs. Any idea on what is causing this?

[ankhers]

I also just noticed that I am unable to see github bot messages on Freenode if I have (erc-services-mode 1) in the erc config.

[mwillsey]

I also just reproduced on develop (bb013ef). Adding the following to dotspacemacs/user-config fixed it for me:

(defun erc-services-mode (num))

This just prevents the layer from loading the mode without having to copy it into a private layer and edit it.

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[ankhers]

I am still seeing this issue on current develop (e0aee15).

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This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Please let us know if this issue is still valid!

[ankhers]

I'm closing this because it will be closed anyways and I no longer use spacemacs. At this point, if someone else cares about this, it may be better to open a new ticket and reference this one.