ERC is an IRC client for Emacs/XEmacs. It supports multiple channel presence, elaborate faces' setup, pals' list, and some other nice features. It's capabilities should be sufficient for most of IRChatters.
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This release adds customize support, nick completion, keyword highlighting, and the ability to track changes in hidden buffers in the mode-line. The dependency for edo-tools.el has been removed. Some bugs have been fixed and some interactive functions added.
