From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: IRC client for Emacs Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 23:57:50 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87adnri6tt.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> References: <873ctot40n.fsf@emacswiki.org> <20020809223753.955308.FMU31823@piglet.prv.splode.com> <200208110355.g7B3tOo06247@wijiji.santafe.edu> <877kixtg8w.fsf@emacswiki.org> <200208130147.g7D1l9t06929@wijiji.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1029221840 24206 127.0.0.1 (13 Aug 2002 06:57:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 06:57:20 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17eVcF-0006IJ-00 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 08:57:19 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17eW0e-0004bg-00 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 09:22:32 +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 17eVd3-0006nz-00; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 02:58:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17eVcs-0006nl-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 02:57:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17eVcq-0006nU-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 02:57:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gci-net.com ([216.183.68.100] helo=gci-net.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17eVcq-0006nN-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 02:57:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [216.183.69.139] (HELO aris) by gci-net.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with ESMTP-TLS id 6711688 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 23:49:22 -0700 Original-Received: from johnw by aris with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17eVck-0003Z8-00 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 23:57:50 -0700 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Home-Page: http://www.gci-net.com/users/j/johnw/ X-Public-Key: http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF40524D0 In-Reply-To: <200208130147.g7D1l9t06929@wijiji.santafe.edu> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 12 Aug 2002 19:47:09 -0600 (MDT)") Original-Lines: 13 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:6498 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6498 >>>>> On Mon Aug 12, RMS writes: > Those recommendations seem to say ERC is better than ZenIRC. Does > anyone prefer ZenIRC, or like some features in ZenIRC that ERC does > not have? (Maybe the easiest thing is to add those features to > ERC.) I have been a fairly active user of both at one time, and they each have strengths and weaknesses. ERC tends to be a little simpler to setup and use, but zenirc is much more extensible. Personally, I would like to see them merged someday. John