spacemacs/contrib/!irc/erc/README.md

ERC contribution layer for Spacemacs

Table of Contents

• ERC contribution layer for Spacemacs
  • 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.