ERC - an IRC client for Emacs

ERC is a powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client for the text editor Emacs.

For documentation and tips go to the ERC homepage at the EmacsWiki. The Savannah project page is here.

Please report bugs to the erc-discuss mailing list.

News

Getting ERC

File releases

The latest version is 5.3. You can download it from the GNU ftp server or one of its mirrors. See its README file for installation instructions.

Part of GNU Emacs

Emacs 22.2 comes with ERC 5.3 ready to use. Just type M-x erc RET.

Missing modules

Some of ERC's modules aren't included with Emacs due to copyright assignment issues or because they depend on other packages that aren't part of Emacs. If you use the version of ERC that comes with Emacs and you'd like to use BBDB, chess over CTCP, nicklist windows, Emacspeak, or alternative channel list windows in ERC you'll have to download the erc-5.3-extras package.

XEmacs package

There's also an XEmacs package, but it hasn't been updated to the latest version. It's based on ERC 5.1.2.

Development version

Git version control

ERC uses Git. See the ErcDevelopment page on EmacsWiki for details.

Browse the Git repository.

Snapshots

Nightly development snapshots are also available: erc-latest.tar.gz or erc-latest.zip.