If you’re happy with what you’re using, you shouldn’t. (If it ain’t broke…) BUT, if you are interested in trying something new, here are some things you should know:
- erc-hl-nicks is based on erc-highlight-nicknames, so it will auto colorize nicknames (you don’t have to specify colors)
- erc-hl-nicks will ignore certain characters that IRC clients add to nicknames to avoid duplicates (nickname, nickname’, nickname”, etc.)
- I’ve only tested this on Emacs 24, but there shouldn’t be anything that prevents it from working on 23.
If you are on Emacs 23, go to marmalade-repo.org and follow the installation instructions there.
If you are on Emacs 24, add Marmalade as a package archive source in ~/.emacs.d/init.el:
(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
'("marmalade" . "http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/") t)
(package-initialize)
Then you can install it:
M-x package-refresh-contents M-x package-install RET erc-hl-nicks RET
Download the source or clone the repo and add the following to ~/.emacs.d/init.el:
(add-to-list 'load-path "path/to/erc-hl-nicks") (require 'erc-hl-nicks)