alezost / erc-hl-nicks

Nickname Highlighting for ERC

erc-hl-nicks - ERC Module to Highlight Nicknames

I already have a nickname highlighter, why should I switch?

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.

Installation

Via Marmalade (recommended)

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

Manually (via git)

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)