From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to IRC? Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 16:03:30 -0600 Organization: NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $23.95 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1449266724 31912 80.91.229.3 (4 Dec 2015 22:05:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 22:05:24 +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 23:05:19 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 1a4yTf-0001Wm-9S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 23:05:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43703 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4yTe-0008Ft-G2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 17:05:18 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!peer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news6 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p8981de08d4c5649b47d0f6364be01e6470f3522779406820.newsdawg.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 In-Reply-To: X-Received-Bytes: 2197 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2113959198 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:216009 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:108299 Archived-At: On 12/3/2015 8:36 AM, Marcin Borkowski wrote: > Hi all, > > 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? > > TIA, > I found these related lines in my .emacs: (defalias 'irc 'erc) ;; so M-x irc loads the erc chat module through Customize set these; substitute your own servers, channels, etc. '(erc-autojoin-channels-alist (quote (("dal.net") ("freenode.net" "#emacs")))) '(erc-manual-set-nick-on-bad-nick-p t) '(erc-modules (quote (autojoin button completion fill irccontrols match menu netsplit noncommands readonly ring stamp))) '(erc-nick "yournick") '(erc-pcomplete-mode t) '(erc-port 6667) '(erc-server "irc.dal.net") ;; or your own '(erc-stamp-mode t) '(erc-truncate-mode t) the Emacs rcirc module might be easier to use but it's less capable than erc Anyway, wait for more authoritative suggestions. Often I have to fall back on Chatzilla or another client when dal.net won't connect. I don't know if the problem is in one of my Emacs settings or what. hth, Ed