Erc is a project mainly written in EMACS LISP and PERL, based on the GPL-3.0 license.
Emacs IRC client
This is the README file for ERC.
ERC is a powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client for Emacs.
Type `make install'. This will compile all the emacs-lisp files and install them in the directory /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/erc. The info manual will be installed to /usr/local/info. You'll most likely need to be the root user to install to these locations.
If you wish to install to someplace else, edit the PREFIX, ELISPDIR, and/or INFODIR options in Makefile.
Put all the files in your load-path[0], and add the following to your ~/.emacs:
(require 'erc)
[0] Don't know what a load path is? See: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LoadPath
Use M-x erc to connect to a server. You can connect to multiple servers.
Use M-x customize-group RET erc RET to get an overview of all the variables you can tweak.
ERC comes with a manual. Type `make doc' to get the HTML and Info versions of it.
Additional documentation is kept on the Emacs Wiki, and may be added to by anyone.
ERC is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License. See the file `COPYING' for details.
The following copyright notice applies to each of the images contained in the `images' directory.
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation. This image may be used, distributed, and modified without restriction.