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Circe

Circe is a Client for IRC in Emacs.

The picture shows "Circe Offering the Cup to Odysseus", by John William Waterhouse (1849–1917); currently in the Oldham Art Gallery, Oldham, U.K.

Documentation

• Introduction to IRC, if you do not know what IRC is.
• Features, a quick list of features of the client
• Manual, the Circe user manual
• Hacking, if you want to contribute to Circe
• Lui, the Linewise User Interface

Installation

In a shell:

mkdir -d ~/.emacs.d/lisp/
cd ~/.emacs.d/lisp
git clone git://github.com/jorgenschaefer/circe.git

Then add the following to your .emacs file:

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/lisp/circe/lisp")
(require 'circe)

The next time you start your Emacs, you should be able to use M-x circe to connect to IRC.

Screenshot

It looks like Emacs. Except it has IRC.

Full size version

Other Clients for Emacs

• ERC
• rcirc