Makes BBDB show if a pal is online with ERC, lets you click i to
chat.
Usage: put (require 'bbdb2erc) in your ~/.emacs
When the BBDB window pops up, the minibuffer should tell you if the
person is online (otherwise it’s silent). You can make it tell you
again by pressing I in the bbdb window. You specify the nick(s) of
the person in the `irc-nick’ field in BBDB, as in the erc-bbdb.el
package.
This package also overrides the default binding of i in BBDB to
start an ERC chat with the record at point. You can read the BBDB
info manual by typing M-x bbdb-info instead, or return to the
default binding with (define-key bbdb-mode-map (kbd "i")
'bbdb-info).
If you use Gnus, you might also want to go straight from a
summary/article to a chat with the sender, put this in your ~/.emacs
to achieve that: (define-key gnus-summary-mode-map (kbd "i")
'bbdb2erc-pm).
Requires BBDB version 3 (but see https://github.com/unhammer/bbdb2erc/tree/bbdb2 if you’re still using BBDB version 2).
Note: you should probably also install the package erc-bbdb.el, part
of the erc-5.3-extras package, not in standard GNU Emacs. It should
be available from http://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/erc/ if it’s not in your
distro’s package manager. Read more about it at
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ErcBbdb