micq in Emacs

micq in Emacs

[Torsten Bronger]

Hallöchen!

I try to use micq from within Emacs.  Has anybody tried that so far?
I found

http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~priestdo/emacspeak/list.archive.1999/msg00569.html

however, I don't know how out-dated it is, and so far I've failed
re-compiling micq.  Anyway, my naive approach was to call
"ansi-term" and starting micq.  The problem is that all backspaces
result in a new line like this:

mICQ> 
Hallo!Hallo
      Hall
      Hal
      Ha
      H

Do I have to use another Emacs mode?  Is it a problem within micq?

By the way, the alternative of "licq -p console" was even worse.
Any other possibilities for using ICQ in GNU Emacs are highly
appreciated.

Tschö,
Torsten.

-- 
Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus            ICQ 264-296-646

Re: micq in Emacs

[Johan Bockgård]

Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> writes:

> Any other possibilities for using ICQ in GNU Emacs are highly
> appreciated.

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/BitlBee

-- 
Johan Bockgård

Re: micq in Emacs

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hello Torsten,

On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:51:15 +0100 Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:

> Any other possibilities for using ICQ in GNU Emacs are highly
> appreciated.

There's Emacs Jabber (http://emacs-jabber.sourceforge.net/), which you
can use to access the ICQ network through a Jabber server.

Best wishes,
Mario

Re: micq in Emacs

[Torsten Bronger]

Hallöchen!

Mario Domenech Goulart <mario.goulart@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:51:15 +0100 Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
>
>> Any other possibilities for using ICQ in GNU Emacs are highly
>> appreciated.
>
> There's Emacs Jabber (http://emacs-jabber.sourceforge.net/), which
> you can use to access the ICQ network through a Jabber server.

I read that this method is very shaky.  Has this improved?

Tschö,
Torsten.

-- 
Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus            ICQ 264-296-646

Re: micq in Emacs

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:22:43 +0100 Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:

> Hallöchen!
>
> Mario Domenech Goulart <mario.goulart@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:51:15 +0100 Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Any other possibilities for using ICQ in GNU Emacs are highly
>>> appreciated.
>>
>> There's Emacs Jabber (http://emacs-jabber.sourceforge.net/), which
>> you can use to access the ICQ network through a Jabber server.
>
> I read that this method is very shaky.  Has this improved?

That's what I use to connect to the ICQ network.  For me it does a good
job, although I'm not a power IMS user.

Best wishes,
Mario

Re: micq in Emacs

[Mathias Dahl]

Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> writes:

>> There's Emacs Jabber (http://emacs-jabber.sourceforge.net/), which
>> you can use to access the ICQ network through a Jabber server.
>
> I read that this method is very shaky.  Has this improved?

That depends on which Jabber server you use, it seems. And maybe how
the ICQ-servers behave too. I use it daily and for me, the ICQ
Transport on the Jabber server I use (jabbernet.dk) is more stable
than the MSN-Transport.

/Mathias

Re: micq in Emacs

[Torsten Bronger]

Hallöchen!

bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård) writes:

> Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> writes:
>
>> Any other possibilities for using ICQ in GNU Emacs are highly
>> appreciated.
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/BitlBee

Okay, I managed to bring ERC + BitlBee up and running.  While it's
much better than mICQ or Licq (from within Emacs), there are still
some annoying things, in particular:

* There is no permanent list of all "buddies" and their status.

* When a new message arrives, the notification (i.e. the "[#]" on
  the command line) is too subtle.  The IRC window is not in the
  front, there is not even a bell.

* All boring system messages like "buddy XY is now offline" trigger
  the notification, too.

Has anybody tried the alternatives?  Are Circe or rcirc better
suited for BitlBee?

Tschö,
Torsten.

-- 
Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus            ICQ 264-296-646

Re: micq in Emacs

[Kirill Kuvaldin]

Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> writes:

> Has anybody tried the alternatives?  Are Circe or rcirc better
> suited for BitlBee?

BTW, there exists native ICQ client (namely eicq - http://eicq.org), but it 
works only within XEmacs.

Cheers,
Kirill