Hardware Reference
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ware program, but there are also many existing modules from nick highlighting to
autoaway that you can use. Lastly, it's naturally cross-platform; any platform that can run
Emacs can run ERC.
Tip
For Emacs users, running an IRC client in Emacs makes sense. After all, dedicated Emacs
users consider Emacs to be the most portable operating system. If you insist on not using
Emacs, irssi is a well-respected IRC client alternative:
http://www.irssi.org/
.
To connect to your BBB BitlBee server with ERC, inside Emacs, type
M-x erc
. You'll
be prompted for the IP address. Then hit enter for the default port number and enter again
for the password. You should join the
&bitlbee
channel and there will be one other user
in that channel with you, root. The following screenshot shows how root interacts with
you in the
&bitlbee
channel but also illustrates the IRC client interface inside Emacs:
