ERC

ERC

Description	IRC in Emacs
Author	name of author
Maintainer	name of maintainer
Source	http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/erc/
Part of Emacs	yes, since 22.1

ERC is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client built into Emacs.

Basic setup

Start ERC using M-x erc or M-x erc-tls if you want to connect over SSL.

Common customization

(eval-after-load "erc"
  '(progn

     ;; Set personal information
     (setq erc-nick "defaultnick")
     (setq erc-user-full-name "My Full Name")

     ;; Set autojoin channels
     (add-to-list 'erc-autojoin-channels-alist
       '("freenode.net" "#emacs" "#foo" "#bar"))

     ;; Connect to Freenode automatically
     (erc-tls :server "irc.freenode.net" :port 7000)))