2018-08-27 Mastodon and rcirc

If you use rcirc (one of the two Emacs IRC clients) and the Bitlbee Mastodon plugin to communicate with a Mastodon instance via Bitlbee, and you want to “dim” the notifications of follows, boosts and favourites:

(eval-after-load 'rcirc
  '(add-to-list 'rcirc-markup-text-functions 'asc:rcirc-dim-keywords))

(defvar asc:rcirc-dim-keywords
  '("favourited your status: "
    "boosted your status: "
    " followed you")
  "Keywords which result in the entire message being dimmed.")

(defun asc:rcirc-dim-keywords (_senders _response)
  "Dim message if it contains particular phrases.
Phrases to take are from `asc:rcirc-dim-keywords'.
Each function takes two arguments, SENDER, and RESPONSE.  The
buffer is narrowed with the text to be printed and the point is
at the beginning of the ‘rcirc-text’ propertized text."
  (dolist (str asc:rcirc-dim-keywords)
    (goto-char (point-min))
    (when (search-forward str nil t)
      (rcirc-add-face (point-min) (point-max) 'rcirc-dim-nick))))

(Mastodon is a free, open-source, decentralized microblogging network. Bitlbee is an IRC server connecting to various other text messaging services. You run Bitlbee and connect to it using an IRC client, then configure Bitlbee to connect to other services, such as a Mastodon instance where you already have an account. The benefit is that you can now use any IRC client you want to connect to Mastodon.)

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