spacemacs/contrib/rcirc

RCIRC contribution layer for Spacemacs

This will enable spacemacs users to have a basic configuration for RCIRC

Features

• Logging into ~/.emacs.d/.cache/rcirc-logs/
• (Optional) No more passwords on your git repo!(security improved) by using credentials stored in ~/.authinfo.gpg (need to have gnutls)
• Color nicknames
• ZNC ready (with ~/.authinfo.gpg)
• WIP. real time change when people use /s/foo/bar in the chats

Install

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

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

Key Bindings

Key Binding       |                 Description

----------------------|------------------------------------------------------------ SPC a i | Open rcirc SPC P o i | Open rcirc in a custom perspective "@RICRC" (need perspectives layer enabled)

Setting up

This method has three ways of connecting

The normal way

Read the manual You may need to set up the rcirc like this

In dotspacemacs/config

      (setq rcirc-server-alist
            '(("irc.freenode.net"
               :user "spacemacs_user"
               :port "1337"
               :password "le_passwd"
               :channels ("#emacs"))))

If you want to use authinfo.gpg you have to enable rcirc-authinfo-support in your dotspacemacs/init.

In dotspacemacs/init

(setq rcirc-authinfo-support t)

And have the following setup (you don't need to expose your password in your configuration file anymore)

In ~/.authinfo.gpg

machine irc.freenode.net port nickserv user spacemacs_user password le_passwd

In dotspacemacs/config

(setq rcirc-server-alist
    '(("irc.freenode.net"
        :user "spacemacs_user"
        :port "1337"
        :channels ("#emacs"))))

The ZNC way

DISCLAIMER: THIS IS ONLY VALID FOR ZNC USERS LEARN MORE ABOUT ZNC HERE if you want to install it you can guide yourself with this

If you use a ZNC server, like me, to use irc, then you know the common way of doing your connection would be.

(setq rcirc-server-alist
    ;; You need different subdomains (freenode.spacemacsserver.me and w/e)
    ;; because rcirc can't tell apart if you have multiple hosts.
    ;; Although there is some code I copy pasted from http://git.tapoueh.org/?p=emacs.d.git
    ;; So if you understand this better than me, feel free to PR
    '(("freenode"
            :host "freenode.spacemacsserver.me"
            :port "1337"
            :password "spacemacs_user/freenode:super_secret_password" )
            :channels ("#emacs"))
        ("geekshed"
            :host "geekshed.spacemacsserver.me"
            :port "1337"
            :password "spacemacs_user/geekshed:super_secret_password")
            :channels ("#jupiterbroadcasting"))

The way to enable ZNC with authinfo support is to have this on your dotspacemacs/init function.

In dotspacemacs/init

(setq rcirc-enable-authinfo-support t
      rcirc-enable-znc-support t)

In dotspacemacs/config

(setq rcirc-server-alist
    ;; This will replace :auth with the correct thing, see the doc for that function
    '(("freenode"
        :host "freenode.spacemacsserver.me"
        :port "1337"
        :auth "spacemacs_user/freenode"
        :channels ("#emacs"))
    ("geekshed"
        :host "geekshed.spacemacsserver.me"
        :port "1337"
        :auth "spacemacs_user/geekshed"
        :channels ("#jupiterbroadcasting"))))

This layer will replace the :auth part with whatever password you have in your ~/.authinfo.gpg. remember to define them with port irc because that's what we use to search the credentials.

machine freenode.spacemacsserver.me port irc user spacemacs_user/freenode password ZNC_PASSWORD
machine geekshed.spacemacsserver.me port irc user spacemacs_user/geekshed password ZNC_PASSWORD

Code for make this work shamelessly copy/pasted from here licensed with WTFPL.