Rcirc

rcirc is an Emacs IRC client.

rcirc

Description	Simple IRC client.\
Author	Alexander L. Belikoff & Others
Maintainer	Michael Olson
Source	http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/erc/
Part of Emacs	yes, since 22.0

Basic Setup

(require 'rcirc)


(setq rcirc-default-nick "John Doe")
(setq rcirc-default-full-name "John Doe")
(setq rcirc-authinfo
      '(("freenode" nickserv freenode-nickserv-nick freenode-nickserv-password)
        ("freenode" chanserv "your nick" "#hiddenchan" "ninjaisthepassword")))

(setq rcirc-server-alist
      '(("irc.freenode.net"
         :port 7000
         :channels ("#emacs" "#lisp" "#clojure #emacs"))))

Enable SSL

(setq rcirc-server-alist
      '(("irc.freenode.net"
         :port 7000
         :connect-function open-tls-stream
         :channels ("#emacs" "#lisp" "#clojure #emacs"))))
;; Don't forget to add (require 'tls) first

See Also

rcirc Manual