@settitle ERC Manual
@syncodeindex fn cp
@include emacsver.texi
+@documentencoding UTF-8
@c %**end of header
@copying
This manual is for ERC as distributed with Emacs @value{EMACSVER}.
-Copyright @copyright{} 2005-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright @copyright{} 2005--2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@quotation
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
-Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover texts being ``A GNU Manual,''
+Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover Texts being ``A GNU Manual,''
and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a) below. A copy of the license
is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''.
@item Join the #emacs channel
-In that buffer, type ``/join SPC #emacs'' and hit @kbd{RET}. Depending
+In that buffer, type ``/join @key{SPC} #emacs'' and hit @kbd{RET}. Depending
on how you've set up ERC, either a new buffer for ``#emacs'' will be
displayed, or a new buffer called ``#emacs'' will be created in the
background. If the latter, switch to the ``#emacs'' buffer. You will
Different channels and servers may have different language encodings.
-In addition, it is possible to translate the messages that ERC uses into
-multiple languages. Please contact the developers of ERC at
-@email{erc-discuss@@gnu.org} if you are interested in helping with the
+multiple languages. Please contact the Emacs developers
+if you are interested in helping with the
translation effort.
@item user scripting
@chapter History
@cindex history, of ERC
-ERC was originally written by Alexander L. Belikoff
-@email{abel@@bfr.co.il} and Sergey Berezin
-@email{sergey.berezin@@cs.cmu.edu}. They stopped development around
+@c abel@@bfr.co.il, sergey.berezin@@cs.cmu.edu
+ERC was originally written by Alexander L. Belikoff and Sergey Berezin.
+They stopped development around
December 1999. Their last released version was ERC 2.0.
P.S.: If one of the original developers of ERC reads this, we'd like to
@itemize
@item 2001
-In June 2001, Mario Lang @email{mlang@@delysid.org} and Alex Schroeder
-@email{alex@@gnu.org} took over development and created a ERC Project at
+@c mlang@@delysid.org, alex@@gnu.org
+In June 2001, Mario Lang and Alex Schroeder
+took over development and created a ERC Project at
@uref{http://sourceforge.net/projects/erc}.
In reaction to a mail about the new ERC development effort, Sergey
@item 2005
-ERC 5.0 was released. Michael Olson @email{mwolson@@gnu.org} became
+@c mwolson@@gnu.org
+ERC 5.0 was released. Michael Olson became
the release manager and eventually the maintainer.
After some discussion between him and the Emacs developers, it was