From d68e6d2689d0b3be4d251b0edc09fba144f7b282 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sean Whitton Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 09:18:35 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] ; rcirc-update-activity-string: Justify some existing behaviour --- lisp/net/rcirc.el | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/lisp/net/rcirc.el b/lisp/net/rcirc.el index 7095da34ec0..2a713de83c2 100644 --- a/lisp/net/rcirc.el +++ b/lisp/net/rcirc.el @@ -2541,6 +2541,17 @@ activity. Only run if the buffer is not visible and ;; any IRC connections. Otherwise, whether we display ;; "[]" or not depends on whether or not this function ;; happens to have been called in this session yet. + ;; + ;; Consistently display nothing, rather than + ;; consistently displaying "[]", for the sake of the + ;; following sort of case: the user has enabled + ;; `rcirc-track-minor-mode' using the customization + ;; system, but also starts up Emacs instances that + ;; aren't used for IRC. Due to the use of easy + ;; customization, `rcirc-track-minor-mode' will be + ;; turned on for every instance of Emacs. But we don't + ;; want to take up valuable mode line space when, say, + ;; Emacs is started up as the value of EDITOR/VISUAL. ((not (null (rcirc-process-list))) "[]") (t