ERC (software)

ERC includes message timestamping, automatic channel joining, flood control,{{cite book

|title=Malicious Mobile Code: Virus Protection for Windows

|first=Roger A. |last= Grimes

|year=2001

|publisher=O'Reilly Media

|page=[https://archive.org/details/maliciousmobilec00grim/page/240 240]

|chapter=Flooding

|isbn=9781565926820 |url=https://archive.org/details/maliciousmobilec00grim

|url-access=registration

|quote=irc flood control.

}} and auto-completion of nicks and commands.

ERC can highlight nicks and text for conversation tracking,

highlight and optionally remove control characters, and allows URLs, nicknames and text to be converted to buttons.

It provides input history, and separate buffers per server and channel.

Notifications include channel activity on the Emacs mode-line, user online status, and channel tracking of hidden conversations. ERC is multi-lingual, and provides auto-script loading at startup.{{cite web

| url = http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20090830123141514/ERC.html

| title = ERC

| access-date = 2009-10-12

| date = 2009-09-13

| work = 10 of the Best Free Linux IRC Clients

| publisher = LinuxLinks

}}

ERC has a modular design, with many features implemented in "more than two dozen loadable modules" included in the default setup, such as autoaway, fill (splits long lines), log (saves chat buffers), spelling, bbdb, which connects ERC to Emacs' BBDB for contact management, and replace, which auto-replaces given text in messages. ERC supports SSL/TLS for encrypted IRC communication.[http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ErcSSL "ERC SSL"]. Emacswiki.org.

According to the GNU project, ERC was first developed by Alexander L. Belikoff and Sergey Berezin.{{cite web

|title=History

|publisher=GNU

|work=Emacs Manual

|url=https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/erc/History.html}}

Berezin wrote that ERC was "originally written by Alexander L. Belikoff, then I improved it in many ways and promoted to version 2.0".{{cite web

|first=Sergey

|last=Berezin

|title=Projects

|url=http://www.sergeyberezin.com/project.php

|access-date=2011-07-13

|archive-date=2012-03-27

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120327155135/http://www.sergeyberezin.com/project.php

|url-status=dead

}} The pair stopped development in 1999. Mario Lang wrote that as of 2001 ERC had been "apparently abandoned", so he and Alexander Schroeder adopted it and created the ERC SourceForge project.{{cite web

|url = http://snow.he.net/~mlang/emacs/erc.html

|title = ERC -- The Emacs IRC Client

|access-date = 2009-10-12

|last = Lang

|first = Mario

|date = 2003-03-14

|publisher = Mario Lang (ERC dev) personal website

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110514234131/http://snow.he.net/~mlang/emacs/erc.html

|archive-date = 2011-05-14

}} Berezin responded positively to news of the renewed effort and bestowed stewardship to the new developers; in the ensuing years, versions 2.1, 3, 4, 5, and 5.1 were released. ERC development moved from SourceForge to GNU in May 2006,{{cite web

| url = https://www.gnu.org/software/erc/

| title = ERC - an IRC client for Emacs

| access-date = 2009-10-12

| publisher = GNU

}}

{{cite web

|url=http://erc.sourceforge.net/

|title=ERC Project

|publisher=SourceForge.net

}}

and ERC was officially incorporated into Emacs release 22.1 on June 3, 2007.{{cite mailing list

| url = http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2007-06/msg00000.html

| title = Emacs 22.1 released

| date = 2007-06-03

| access-date = 2009-10-16

| mailing-list = info-gnu-emacs

| last = Stallman

| first = Richard

| author-link = Richard Stallman

}} ERC development now takes place inside the Emacs source-code tree.

ERC is one of two IRC clients included in the Emacs distribution; rcirc is the other. Circe and the "ascetic" ZenIRC are also Emacs-based IRC clients. According to its author, Circe incorporates ideas from ERC such as its activity tracker and others; it was developed as ERC became "difficult to debug and improve."{{cite web

| url = http://www.nongnu.org/circe/

| title = Circe - Yet Another Client for IRC in Emacs

| access-date = 2009-10-12

| last = Schäfer

| first = Jorgen

| date = 2005-10-21

| quote = The best feature of Circe is the activity tracker, which many will know from ERC.

| publisher = nongnu.org

}}

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• {{cite web

|url = http://xtalk.msk.su/~ott/ru/emacs/emacs-im/EmacsERC.html

|title = Emacs: ERC

|access-date = 2009-10-16

|last = Ott

|first = Alex

|language = ru

|publisher = xtalk.msk.su

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090401055945/http://xtalk.msk.su/~ott/ru/emacs/emacs-im/EmacsERC.html

|archive-date = 2009-04-01

|url-status = dead

}}

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• [http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ERC ERC] at EmacsWiki

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