Yeah, I moved back from Colloquy to an Emacs-based IRC client: rcirc. Easy to install (one file), easy to hack. ERC turned out to be somwhat unwieldy, mentally. Getting the autoloads right wasted a few minutes every time I had to reinstall it. I do that from time to time as I move to a new developer machine and install Emacs. Having a very simple setup of external packages is a bonus in such situations.
Anyway, rcirc was so hackable that I added two features I missed in no time: Giving nicks unique colors – something I got from a Colloquy theme by Les Orchard of 0xDECAFBAD! I liked it, I wanted it. rcircColoredNicks.
=> 0xDECAFBAD | rcircColoredNicks
The other feature was /ignore. rcircIgnore.
=> rcircIgnore
And being able to talk to RyanYeske as he developed a new solution for rcircAutoAuthentication was also cool.
So basically, Colloquy has the features I need and a Cocoa interface, where as rcirc has the features I need and uses Emacs.
Give me Emacs any day! 😄
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