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ERC Setup

ERC is an IRC client for GNU Emacs.

First you need to install Emacs (at least version 22.1, which was released on the 2nd of June 2007), how you do this depends on your distribution, on Debian, and derived distributions:

sudo apt install emacs

Or on GNU Guix:

guix package -i emacs

Once you have installed Emacs, open it, and type M-x erc-tls (M-x means Meta + X, Meta is often called Alt on modern keyboards), then type the correct network address/port/nickname/password (erc-tls uses TLS, if your network doesn’t support it use erc).

Once this is done you should see something like this (I changed the theme to tango-dark, so that may be different):

Screenshot of ERC before joining a channel

Then you need to join a channel, by typing /join <channel name>, where “<channel name>” is the name of the channel, for example to join #DCGLUG, you would type /join #DCGLUG, like this:

Screenshot of ERC after joining #DCGLUG

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