Re: IRC client for Emacs

[Mario Lang]

Noah Friedman <address@hidden> writes:

>>ERC has some extra features over ZenIRC like colour display as well as the
>>possibility to display a separate info buffer for every channel.
>
> Yes, those are the top 2 missing features in zenirc that need to be
> addressed.  There are modules that implement these which people have
> contributed, but they still have a bunch of corner cases that I need to
> debug.

Well, info buffers work, but are not really popular.  I've written
some bits of speedbar integration, which seem to be the way to go.

> I don't know if ERC has been internationalized, but zenirc has a
> a few localization catalogs already.

We have the code, but no other languages then English right now.

>
> I'll take a look at ERC in the next few days and see how they differ in
> more detail.

Most useful is erc-track imho, and a nice addition is erc-button, which
allows to buttonize based on regexps.

I've also written erc-speak, which integrates with emacspeak for continuus
channel reading.

See http://emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?EmacsIRCClient for our
documentation center, and the rest is in sourceforge cvs.

-- 
CYa,
  Mario