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3.7 irc

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is handled by handing off the irc session to a function named in url-irc-function.

— User Option: url-irc-function

A function to actually open an IRC connection. This function must take five arguments, host, port, channel, user and password. The channel argument specifies the channel to join immediately, this can be nil. By default this is url-irc-rcirc.

— Function: url-irc-rcirc host port channel user password

Processes the arguments and lets rcirc handle the session.

— Function: url-irc-erc host port channel user password

Processes the arguments and lets ERC handle the session.

— Function: url-irc-zenirc host port channel user password

Processes the arguments and lets zenirc handle the session.