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Re: How to IRC?
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Emanuel Berg |
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Re: How to IRC? |
Date: |
Sat, 05 Dec 2015 02:57:42 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) |
"B. T. Raven" <btraven@nihilo.net> writes:
> Anyway, wait for more authoritative suggestions.
> Often I have to fall back on Chatzilla or another
> client when dal.net won't connect. I don't know if
> the problem is in one of my Emacs settings or what.
Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> writes:
> irc in emacs gets disconnected every time when
> connecting to freenode.net which is where erc goes
> to connect. Why this is, I don't know.
Okaaay...
In theory as well as practice, unless practice is at
an embarrassingly low level (and a wierd one at that),
the IRC client shouldn't one bit influence the status
of IRC as a network, and the client should be able to
connect to any server that any other client is able to
connect to.
If not, the IRC protocol isn't implemented correctly -
and this is something we normally take for granted
when discussing clients. E.g., when we say Gnus is
better than Thunderbird, we mean we prefer the Gnus
*interface*, we appreciate Gnus being part of Emacs,
the configurability and Elisping, and so on - we don't
mean that Thunderbird is incapable of delivering and
fetching the actual mails.
With ERC, these variables
(setq erc-server "irc.freenode.net")
(setq erc-port 6667)
are prefixed `erc-' but that refers to them being part
of the ERC software; ERC is still the client and the
server is the server of the IRC network - so by
changing that variable value, ERC should be able to
connect to virtually all servers (except some for
non-technology reasons).
--
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
Re: How to IRC?, Emanuel Berg, 2015/12/03
Re: How to IRC?, Shakthi Kannan, 2015/12/09
Re: How to IRC?, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2015/12/03
Re: How to IRC?, B. T. Raven, 2015/12/04