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ERC layer
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
andViewLogMode
for viewing logs (using erc-view-log) - YouTube videos Thumbnails inline (using erc-yt)
- Social Graph for ERC messages (using erc-social-graph)
- Optional SASL authentication via the variable
erc-enable-sasl-auth
(using erc-sasl) - 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 configuration layer, add it to your ~/.spacemacs
. You will need to
add erc
to the existing dotspacemacs-configuration-layers
list in this
file.
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.
Default servers
You can define the default servers in the ERC custom layout by setting the
variable erc-server-list
. Setting :ssl
non nil will connect with erc-tls
.
You can also use <leader>aiD
to connect to your default servers outside the
custom layout.
(setq-default dotspacemacs-configuration-layers
'((erc :variables
erc-server-list
'(("irc.freenode.net"
:port "6697"
:ssl t
:nick "some-user"
:password "secret")
("irc.myworkirc.net"
:port "1234"
:nick "some-suit"
:password "hunter2")))))
Security Note
You should not store your passwords in the clear in your .spacemacs
, and that
goes double if you version your config file. ERC allows for a number of ways of
protecting this information.
First, ERC will check your ~/.authinfo.gpg
, looking for lines like
machine <irc.server.url> login <yournick> password <yourpassword> port <portnumber>
You can omit :password
in this case.
You could also set an environment variable (or otherwise secret variable) and
read that in :password
.
Key bindings
Key Binding | Description |
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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 a i D |
Start ERC with default servers |
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.
Spacemacs Layout Support
ERC buffers are added automatically to the default layout for ERC controlled by
the variable erc-spacemacs-layout-name
(defaults to "@ERC") and the default
binding ("E") is controlled by erc-spacemacs-layout-binding