spacemacs/contrib/!irc/erc

ERC contribution layer for Spacemacs

• Table of Contents
• Description
• Features
• Install
  • Layer
  • OS X
  • Social graph
• Key bindings

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• Description
• Features

• Install

  • Layer
  • OS X
  • Social graph
• Key bindings

Description

Layer for ERC IRC chat.

Features

• Highlight nicks (using erc-hl-nicks)
• Image inline support (using erc-image)
• Logging to ~/.emacs.d/.cache/erc-logs and ViewLogMode for viewing logs (using erc-view-log)
• YouTube videos Thumbnails inline (using erc-yt)
• Social Graph for ERC messages (using erc-social-graph)
• ERC yank, if pasting more than 5 lines, create a gist for it. (needs to have github layer enabled, or using gist package)

Install

Layer

To use this contribution add it to your ~/.spacemacs

  (setq-default dotspacemacs-configuration-layers '(erc))

OS X

It's recommended to install the terminal-notifier gem so that you get notifications via the OS X Notification Center.

Social graph

erc-social-graph needs graphviz to be installed on your system.

Key bindings

Key Binding	Description
SPC a i e	Starts ERC
SPC a i E	Starts ERC via TLS/SSL
SPC a i i	Switch to next active ERC buffer
SPC m b	Switch between ERC buffers
SPC m d	Interactively input a user action and send it to IRC.
SPC m D	Draw Social Graph using erc-social-graph
SPC m j	Join a channel, executes the /join command
SPC m n	Run "/names #channel" in the current channel.
SPC m l	Run the /list command
SPC m p	Part from the channel
SPC m q	Quit server

Note: If you want to connect securely to an IRC server, you must run erc-tls command on SPC a i E instead of the erc command.