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erc: Introduction

 
 1 Introduction
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 ERC is a powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client for Emacs.  It is
 distributed with Emacs since version 22.1.
 
    It comes with the following capabilities enabled by default.
 
    • Flood control
    • Timestamps
    • Join channels automatically
    • Buttonize URLs, nicknames, and other text
    • Wrap long lines
    • Highlight or remove IRC control characters
    • Highlight pals, fools, and other keywords
    • Detect netsplits
    • Complete nicknames and commands in a programmable fashion
    • Make displayed lines read-only
    • Input history
    • Track channel activity in the mode-line
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