url: irc
4.7 irc
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The ‘irc’ scheme is defined in the Internet Draft at
<http://www.w3.org/Addressing/draft-mirashi-url-irc-01.txt> (which was
never approved as an RFC). Such URLs have the form
irc://HOST:PORT/TARGET,NEEDPASS
and are retrieved by opening an IRC session using the function specified
by ‘url-irc-function’.
-- User Option: url-irc-function
The value of this option is a function, which is called to open an
IRC connection for ‘irc’ URLs. This function must take five
arguments, HOST, PORT, CHANNEL, USER and PASSWORD. The CHANNEL
argument specifies the channel to join immediately, and may be
‘nil’.
The default is ‘url-irc-rcirc’, which uses the Rcirc package.
Other options are ‘url-irc-erc’ (which uses ERC) and
‘url-irc-zenirc’ (which uses ZenIRC).