ERC-Gitter

ERC-Gitter is an ERC module with the goal of incorporating the features present in Gitter Chatrooms.

Features

• Proper sending and viewing of multiline messages include code-blocks.
• Inline markdown formatting using markdown-mode.
• Link detection for github issues (#IssueNo), and cross-repo issues (user/repo#IssueNo).

Planned

• Recognition of @name and @/all notices used in Gitter web-client.
• Support for @name completion.

Currently unsupported

• Code and quote block markup. ERC receives messages on a line-by-line basis. Matching these lines to detect code and quote blocks would require finding github block markers (```) or text starting with 4 spaces (normal code block) and then fontifying until end of block (next ```, end of 4+ space indent, change of user).

  These lines also include the entire IRC message string (sender, server, PRIVMSG), which should not be fontified in the process.

  Any assistance in reliably detecting these blocks is appreciated.

Installation

This package has the following dependencies:

• ERC (bundled with emacs)
• Markdown-Mode (available in MELPA)

Git Development package

To install the development package, follow the usual steps:

Clone this repository

https://github.com/jleechpe/erc-gitter.git

Add the directory to your load path

(add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/erc-gitter/")

Require the package

(require 'erc-gitter)

Usage

Add erc-gitter to the list of erc-modules and update the list of modules.

(add-to-list 'erc-modules 'gitter)
(erc-update-modules)

Alternately, enable the module directly via M-x erc-gitter-enable.

Contributing

Please contribute. Doing any of the following will help

• Open an issue
• Submit a pull request
• Discuss the package on Gitter