Re: erc

[Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>]

David Csercsics <kajarii@shaw.ca> writes:

> I've got a question. I was looking for a decent irc client for the
> console and I have found 2 or 3 that I like. I ran across a thing
> called erc which is supposed to be an erc client for emacs. Never got
> ti to work though so I have no idea how good it is but it looked like
> it might be kind of neat. when I typed M-x erc-mode to start it I got
> the error beep and a message in the minibuffer telling me "wrong
> argument type: commandp, erc-mode". Anybody else got this? Is this a
> bug or what? Just curious. Not that it really matters if it works as
> there is no shortage of irc clients I was just playing aroudn and ran
> into this and seeing as there is almost no documentation that I could
> find for the program	I figured I woudl ask if anyone has fiddled
> with this thing at all. I know that it's not a dependency issue as I
> did an apt-get install erc and so I would assume that apt is its usual
> smart self and fixed that up good. 

M-x erc-select

is what you want.  More helpful stuff can be found here:

http://emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?EmacsIRCClient

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Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>