Dear Lazyweb: I’m trying out Emacs as an IRC client (via ERC) and realize that I could probably use some tuning to make it work well. I’m wondering whether anyone in the Fedora community has a set of scripts they use to do some of the following:
- Auto-login to several networks and start up channels in some of them
- Produce notifications via D-Bus or libnotify
OK, I haven’t done a ton of investigation yet, too much else on my plate so I have to get a Round Tuit when I can. If you have a set of goodies that work well for you, let me know.
Comments such as “use another client” will be cheerfully deleted. ? This is just an experiment, since I regularly use other clients like irssi and xchat-gnome.
You may take a look at my setup – I have set up autologin in freenode + autojoin, some utility functions as well as libnotify notifications – //github.com/bbatsov/emacs.d/blob/master/lisp/erc-config.el
Yep, I use ERC too. Here’s a selection from my .emacs. For notifications with libnotify, see //www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ErcPageMe.
;; Create new windows for new private messages.
(setq erc-auto-query t)
;; Ignore these changes on the modeline notifications
(setq erc-track-exclude-types ‘(“JOIN” “NICK” “PART” “QUIT”))
(defun erc-register-connection (command server port nick)
“Create interactive command
command', for connecting to an IRC server. The(lambda (arg) (interactive “p”)command uses interactive mode if passed an argument."
(fset command
(if (= 1 arg)
(erc ,server ,port ,nick erc-user-full-name t)
(erc-select ,server ,port ,nick)))))
(erc-register-connection ‘erc-fn “irc.freenode.net” 6667 “cjb”)
(erc-register-connection ‘erc-fn “irc.oftc.net” 6667 “cjb”)
(setq erc-fill-column 78)
(setq erc-user-full-name “Your Name”)
(setq erc-max-buffer-size 200000)
(require ‘erc-truncate)
(defvar erc-insert-post-hook)
(add-hook ‘erc-insert-post-hook
‘erc-truncate-buffer)
(setq erc-truncate-buffer-on-save t)
(setq erc-prompt “>>”)
(setq erc-prompt-for-password nil)
(setq erc-prompt-interactive-input t)
(setq erc-hide-timestamps nil)
(add-hook ‘erc-insert-modify-hook ‘erc-fill)
(add-hook ‘erc-send-modify-hook ‘erc-fill)
(erc-select :server “irc.freenode.net” :port 6667)
(erc-select :server “irc.oftc.net” :port 6667)
;; Join some channels.
(defun freenode-join (channelname)
(with-current-buffer “irc.freenode.net:6667”
(erc-cmd-JOIN channelname)))
(defun oftc-join (channelname)
(with-current-buffer “irc.oftc.net:6667”
(erc-cmd-JOIN channelname)))
(freenode-join “#channel1”)
(freenode-join “#channel2”)
(oftc-join “#channel3”)
(oftc-join “#channel4”)
‘(erc-autoaway-idle-method (quote user))
‘(erc-autoaway-mode t)
‘(erc-autojoin-channels-alist (quote ((“irc.freenode.net” “#augeas” “fedora”))))
‘(erc-autojoin-mode t)
‘(erc-hide-list (quote (“JOIN” “KICK” “NICK” “PART” “QUIT” “MODE”)))
‘(erc-join-buffer (quote bury))
‘(erc-kill-buffer-on-part t)
‘(erc-nick “stokachu”)
‘(erc-prompt “moo>”)
‘(erc-quit-reason-various-alist nil)
‘(erc-server “irc.devel.redhat.com”)
‘(erc-user-full-name “adam stokes”)
(custom-set-faces
;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
;; If there is more than one, they won’t work right.
‘(erc-input-face ((t (:foreground “orange”))))
‘(erc-my-nick-face ((t (:background “black” :foreground “orange” :weight bold)))))
You can have a look at my ~/.emacs erc function at:
//gitorious.org/shakthimaan-dot-emacs/dot-emacs/blobs/master/.emacs#line27
I don’t have dbus or notify yet though.