My user-config looks following:
(defun dotspacemacs/user-config () (setq-default dotspacemacs-configuration-layers '((erc :variables erc-server-list '(("chat.freenode.net" :port "6697" :ssl t :nick "siulkilulki"))))) ) According to point 3.4 in http://spacemacs.org/layers/+chat/erc/README.html it should set default servers, but when I press <leader>aiD I get you must define erc-server-list. What did I do wrong?
It seems like dotspacemacs-configuration-layers should be set up in defun dotspacemacs/layers (). Moving code there solves problem.
It looks like when ERC starts it doesn't actually use the default servers unless you tell it to. Having two possibilities for default servers seems odd.
M-m a-i-D (it has to be a capitalized D) starts the default servers for me. Anything else starts on freenode.net with port 6667
For reference in my dotspacemacs-configuration-layers I have the following format for my default server:
dotspacemacs-configuration-layers '((erc :variables erc-server-list '(("irc.example.com" :port "6770" :ssl t :nick "nick" :password "password")) )) UPDATE: What I ended up doing was making my own key setting to join the IRC server I wanted (C-c i):
(global-set-key "\C-ci" (lambda () (interactive) (erc-tls :server "irc.example.com" :port "6779" :nick "my_username" :password "my_password"))) 