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Circe is a Client for IRC in Emacs. It's one of several
IRC clients for the versatile editor. It includes lui.el,
a line-oriented user interface that can be used by other packages to
create a similar user experience.
A major part of Circe is the user interface, called Lui, which abstracts away the typical line-based interaction. It is designed to be usable for other software projects.
Circe supports most standard features one would expect of an IRC client, like per-channel and per-query windows, nick highlighting, flood protection, etc. Some of the less common features include:
- Channel activity is tracked in the mode line.
C-c C-SPCcycles through channels with activity, and back to the buffer you came from. - A fools list complements the ignore list. Lines from fools are by default hidden, but can be shown temporarily with a keyboard command. This makes it possible to ignore some annoying person, but still figure out what is going on in case someone starts talking with them.
- Both the ignore and fool features do not only ignore people, but try to be smart about ignoring also ignoring those who address the ignored person.
- Special netsplit handling to avoid the resulting flood.
- Time stamps do not get copied when chat text is copied using Emacs commands.
- Lines sent to the server are split automatically to keep them below the maximum line length for IRC. This splitting happens at word boundaries.
- DCC has not been implemented.
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/MODE,/KICKetc. commands. Use/QUOTEto send the verbatim code. Also, think twice before using those. They're often unnecessary.
It looks like Emacs. Except it has IRC.
Clone the git repository, add the lisp/ directory to your
load-path, (require 'circe) and then simply use M-x circe to
connect to IRC.