flexibeast.space - gemlog - 2023-07-27

ERC with soju: update

A couple of months ago i wrote about setting up soju on OpenBSD (it was pretty straightforward) and trying to get Emacs' ERC working with it (shenanigans were required):

“Setting up the soju IRC bouncer on OpenBSD, and using it with Emacs' ERC”

However, i recently started using Emacs 29.1 (rc1), and i'm pleased to say that using ERC with soju has - at least for me! - moved into the “pretty straightforward” category:

• Enable the new `sasl` ERC module, and set the auth mechanism appropriately:

(require 'erc-sasl)
(add-to-list 'erc-modules 'sasl)
(erc-update-modules)
(setopt erc-sasl-mechanism 'plain)
      

• Create some variables for later use, including an assoc list of networks and their associated nicks:

(setq erc-soju-server "[server]")
(setq erc-soju-port "[port]")
(setq erc-soju-networks '(("[network 1]" . "[network 1 nick]")
                          ("[network 2]" . "[network 2 nick]"))
      

• Use both ‘:user’ and ‘:nick’ when calling ‘erc-tls’; use ‘:id’ to uniquely identify each network being accessed via soju; and ask for [soju username]'s password:

(defun erc-soju-start ()
  "Start an ERC session with soju. Requires Emacs 29.1 and greater."
  (interactive)
  (let ((choice
         (completing-read
          "[Soju] Network? "
          (mapcar #'car erc-soju-networks))))
    (erc-tls :server erc-soju-server
             :port erc-soju-port
             :id (concat erc-soju-server "/" choice)
             :user (concat "[soju username]/" choice)
             :nick (cdr (assoc choice erc-soju-networks))
             :password (read-passwd "Password? "))))
      

And .... that seems to be it. :-) Seems to be working smoothly so far. Thanks to those - primarily "J.P.", if i understand correctly - who made this happen!

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