From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to IRC? Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2015 01:45:18 +0100 Message-ID: <87k2ovujmp.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87d1unioop.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1449189363 31268 80.91.229.3 (4 Dec 2015 00:36:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 00:36:03 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 04 01:35:53 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a4eLn-0000bW-1p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 01:35:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38112 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4eLm-0003ZF-6N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2015 19:35:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38909) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4eLS-0003ZA-D4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2015 19:35:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4eLP-00021t-6g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2015 19:35:30 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:39717) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4eLP-00021o-07 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2015 19:35:27 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a4eL5-0007oT-BR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 01:35:08 +0100 Original-Received: from nl106-137-244.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 01:35:07 +0100 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-244.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 01:35:07 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 46 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-244.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jnkH6md1LQ2PbTQ4Q73GVdoGhSM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108291 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski writes: > I'm an (almost) complete newbie wrt IRC. How do > I start? The EmacsWiki page is basically a bunch of > people stating that ERC is great. There are several Emacs IRC clients. ERC is the one I use and tho I have encountered one bug in particular (which was ignored on both gmane.emacs.devel and gmane.emacs.erc.general when I brought it up) - anyway save for that anomaly I am happy with ERC. Here is my setup: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/conf/emacs-init/erc-my.el Also, there are a lot of `erc-' faces! So you will have to spend some well-spent time getting it to work to your liking. As for IRC itself, for people like us, it isn't that great. Gmane/Usenet is much, much better. But IRC is good for questions that you know there is a fast-and-standard answer to. Anything that requires discussion and follow-ups, use the listbots/newsgroups as always. Historically IRC is a playground for havoc kids to experiment with security and be immature nox-ing each other, do takeovers - basically boys will be boys, tho some of these boys are bit more... whatever. For grownups to spend time "idling" on IRC - I don't see the sense in that. And I'm more than willing to have a flame war over that RIGHT NOW! ... No, just kidding :) Emacs of course, makes both IRC and Gmane better. If you don't get an answer on IRC, kill you question, bring up a message buffer, and send it to Gmane! Case closed. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573