From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Shakthi Kannan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to IRC? Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 09:53:35 +0530 Message-ID: References: <87d1unioop.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1449721436 26290 80.91.229.3 (10 Dec 2015 04:23:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 04:23:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list To: Marcin Borkowski Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 10 05:23:48 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 1a6slg-0007WC-6V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Dec 2015 05:23:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39236 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a6slf-0001aQ-Jx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2015 23:23:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56471) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a6slV-0001a7-4a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2015 23:23:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a6slT-0003Ct-UD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2015 23:23:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-oi0-x235.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4003:c06::235]:34619) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a6slT-0003Cb-QX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2015 23:23:35 -0500 Original-Received: by oies6 with SMTP id s6so38971925oie.1 for ; Wed, 09 Dec 2015 20:23:35 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=IUnq4r/dNHncGmml2n50aUWVgf8v/svcVN/72hwDj/U=; b=dcAz0yxpYmwvFp5+M6QRjfErtr9SM8/tn3ei7UDSGpqfRgO0NArXjvCQndgHqqA5v6 M8t87LHhnrHI9WECKBnfAZEtdnCIppNV+s8XtOVbbF4R+pzskZ0JmQ32EmYaLX/PuQqS Wr8pMH4cPJj6T424t8aw3gIcZom4Sfvyswxx2lrhPnqQKoZWDfM2I36UyEWmLEvKoOe2 RDgeRfJARnjKT1fxc3r2tT5WJxmP8K8EkmCioMdq5QD12RS8xvhe10q5iQgdA7k3fbdZ 5ds1wlwgGc1aFMRJhbCWwFkzwjQfsBiZlM+GSLUtcXjvhpUAxGG4jkBUs0wH2+04nMrl +CzQ== X-Received: by 10.202.77.13 with SMTP id a13mr1163643oib.98.1449721415178; Wed, 09 Dec 2015 20:23:35 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.182.24.8 with HTTP; Wed, 9 Dec 2015 20:23:35 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87d1unioop.fsf@mbork.pl> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4003:c06::235 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:108352 Archived-At: Hi Marcin, --- On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Marcin Borkowski wrote: | 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. That is | cool, but I'd like to learn how to use that (I found some general IRC | links there, so that part can be considered solved) and choose an | (Emacs-based, of course) IRC client. What are the differences bewteen | (many) existing clients? Any hints which might help me decide? \-- I started with ERC, but, it kept getting disconnected, and reconnecting. I switched to using rcirc. My configuration is at: https://github.com/shakthimaan/cask-dot-emacs/blob/master/etc/init-rcirc.el SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com