[GLLUG] Emacs IRC Client Trouble

[Chick Tower]

Just use GAIM, Pidgin, or Kopete, Bill.  They come with Slackware.

That's one of my pet peeves with emacs.  It can be adapted to do almost 
anything, which is not the Unix/Linux philosophy of small utilities to 
do one job supremely well.  But why would you bother to modify a text 
editor to be a chat client, or a Usenet client?  Just because you can 
does not mean it's the right tool for the job.  I could wash dishes in 
my toilet, but I'll pass.

                                Chick


Marr wrote:
> Based on a discussion with fellow Emacs enthusiast Patrick (Hawkins, I think) 
> at a GLLUG meeting well over a year ago, I decided to run the Emacs IRC 
> client known as 'erc'.
> 
> The 'erc' installation is trivial (unlike web-based 'Google Talk', which 
> wanted me to install Adobe Flash 9 -- no thanks).