X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/962e44a5425bf7bda8c853c0e6acf5c0e7440af9..fd60bf6c902b47daadda6ebf442045dbe1328941:/doc/misc/erc.texi diff --git a/doc/misc/erc.texi b/doc/misc/erc.texi index 33686fd79f..4cb5eaed60 100644 --- a/doc/misc/erc.texi +++ b/doc/misc/erc.texi @@ -4,18 +4,19 @@ @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--2013 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''. @@ -149,7 +150,7 @@ then a bunch of other messages that describe the current IRC server. @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 @@ -234,9 +235,8 @@ forwards. 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 Emacs at -@email{emacs-devel@@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 @@ -784,9 +784,9 @@ To report a bug in ERC, use @kbd{M-x report-emacs-bug}. @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 @@ -796,8 +796,9 @@ general. @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 @@ -825,7 +826,8 @@ ERC 4.0 was released. @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