From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nic Ferrier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: rcirc IRC implementation for Emacs Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 16:20:54 +0100 Message-ID: <87k6lnmiw9.fsf@tapsellferrier.co.uk> References: <200505251451.j4PEpnG00757@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1117034807 15540 80.91.229.2 (25 May 2005 15:26:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 15:26:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 25 17:26:44 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Daxkj-0002BQ-Qu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 May 2005 17:25:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Daxoc-0007Ot-MG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 May 2005 11:29:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DaxnK-00075r-1U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 May 2005 11:27:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DaxnG-00073c-60 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 May 2005 11:27:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DaxnF-00073H-T9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 May 2005 11:27:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.168.156.78] (helo=owls-tree.tapsellferrier.co.uk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1Daxjx-0006Z4-Am for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 May 2005 11:24:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [217.207.145.34] (helo=kanga) by owls-tree.tapsellferrier.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.50 #1 (Debian)) id 1Daxgb-0000pj-ML; Wed, 25 May 2005 16:20:45 +0100 Original-Received: from nferrier by kanga with local (Exim 4.44) id 1Daxgl-0004bs-0k; Wed, 25 May 2005 16:20:55 +0100 Original-To: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) In-Reply-To: <200505251451.j4PEpnG00757@f7.net> (Karl Berry's message of "Wed, 25 May 2005 10:51:49 -0400") X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:37616 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37616 karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes: > An IRC implementation for Emacs has been offered to GNU: > http://www.nongnu.org/rcirc > > It seems reasonable enough, but none of the evaluators are IRC experts, > so we thought someone here might like to take a look and give an > opinion. Nitpicking the code isn't necessary, just whether it is a > decent package that we should add to Emacs. It is a single file, > rcirc.el. > > The author (Ryan Yeske) looked into other IRC Emacs implementations and > had various reasons for writing a new one. If anyone here is happily > using another IRC Emacs package, I'd be especially grateful for any > details and/or a comparison. > > Please include me in any replies, as I'm not on the list. Thanks. I use ERC (an Emacs IRC client) to talk to a free IRC to MSN/AIM/etc... gateway called Bitlbee. rcirc is ok... but it's not as slick as rcirc. But it's ok as a basic irc client. I'd be quite happy if it came with emacs to be honest. I'd probably stop using ERC. Nic Ferrier