From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mario Lang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: IRC client for Emacs Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 18:50:12 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <874rdxmlkr.fsf@lexx.delysid.org> References: <873ctot40n.fsf@emacswiki.org> <20020809223753.955308.FMU31823@piglet.prv.splode.com> <200208110355.g7B3tOo06247@wijiji.santafe.edu> <877kixtg8w.fsf@emacswiki.org> <20020811160610.424772.FMU9022@piglet.prv.splode.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1029343837 26125 127.0.0.1 (14 Aug 2002 16:50:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 16:50:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Noah Friedman Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17f1Lq-0006n8-00 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 18:50:30 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17f1kw-0001Bp-00 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 19:16:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17f1Mh-00032U-00; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 12:51:23 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17f1LR-0002ys-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 12:50:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17f1LP-0002yW-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 12:50:04 -0400 Original-Received: from tk212017102236.teleweb.at ([212.17.102.236] helo=lexx.delysid.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17f1LP-0002yR-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 12:50:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mlang by lexx.delysid.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17f1LZ-0002pq-00; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 18:50:13 +0200 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <20020811160610.424772.FMU9022@piglet.prv.splode.com> (Noah Friedman's message of "Sun, 11 Aug 2002 16:06:10 -0700 (PDT)") Original-Lines: 34 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:6535 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6535 Noah Friedman writes: >>ERC has some extra features over ZenIRC like colour display as well as the >>possibility to display a separate info buffer for every channel. > > Yes, those are the top 2 missing features in zenirc that need to be > addressed. There are modules that implement these which people have > contributed, but they still have a bunch of corner cases that I need to > debug. Well, info buffers work, but are not really popular. I've written some bits of speedbar integration, which seem to be the way to go. > I don't know if ERC has been internationalized, but zenirc has a > a few localization catalogs already. We have the code, but no other languages then English right now. > > I'll take a look at ERC in the next few days and see how they differ in > more detail. Most useful is erc-track imho, and a nice addition is erc-button, which allows to buttonize based on regexps. I've also written erc-speak, which integrates with emacspeak for continuus channel reading. See http://emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?EmacsIRCClient for our documentation center, and the rest is in sourceforge cvs. -- CYa, Mario