spacemacs/layers/+irc/erc/README.org

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ERC contribution layer for Spacemacs

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)
  • Optional SASL authentication via the variable erc-enable-sasl-auth (using erc-sasl)
  • Gitter support! This includes clickable issue numbers, inline markdown highlighting, and more (check package doc). Go to irc.gitter.im to get credentials and use erc-tls to connect ( SPC a i E ).
  • Completion of Emojis using company-emoji (still needs a way of showing, either using the emoji layer or having a proper font) 👏

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.