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Genuine question, how do you use your text editor to chat?
by escapologybb 11y ago
Genuine question, how do you use your text editor to chat?
- maus42 11y agoI think one can IRC from Emacs? There probably exists a IRC plugin for Vim, too.
- escapologybb 11y agoThanks for the helpful response temporal, although I'm not sure if my productivity this afternoon is going to go up or down at finding out this new information. ;-)
- TeMPOraL 11y agoAs 'maus42 guessed, I IRC from Emacs. I used to chat with the built-in IRC client called ERC[0], but then I switched to leaving a Weechat session running on a VPS under `screen', and I use weechat.el[1] to connect to it from Emacs. As for IMs, there's jabber.el[2], which I used from time to time to talk over Facebook messenger and (pre-Hangouts) Google Talk. Overall, it's surprisingly convenient to talk from your text editor. The context switch is much smaller, not to mention having available all the convenient text editing shortcuts and features you're used to. [0] - https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ERC https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ERC [1] - https://github.com/the-kenny/weechat.el/ https://github.com/the-kenny/weechat.el/ [2] - https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/JabberEl https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/JabberEl