GNU ELPA - rcirc-mentions

rcirc-mentions: Collect mentions of your nick or keywords in a separate mentions buffer

The builtin rcirc-track-minor-mode provides a way to be informed when your nick was mentioned in some channel and provides key bindings to quickly jump to that channel. But what if you cannot interact immediately? That's where the rcirc mentions buffer comes into play.

When you activate rcirc-mentions-log-mode in channel buffers (or rcirc-mentions-global-log-mode), all mentions of your nick or a keyword in rcirc-keywords will be collected in a buffer named *rcirc mentions* (customizable by rcirc-mentions-buffer-name). Those log entries have a timestamp, the text of the message containing the mention, and most importantly, they contain a clickable link to the location of the original mention in some channel buffer. That way, you have a logbook of the most important events in one central place.

You can quickly switch to the mentions buffer from rcirc buffers where rcirc-mentions-log-mode is active using rcirc-mentions-switch-to-mentions-buffer. The default binding is C-c C-., the keymap is rcirc-mentions-log-mode-map.

The mentions buffer uses a separate major mode, rcirc-mentions-buffer-mode, which provides some navigation commands, e.g., rcirc-mentions-next (n) to move to the next mention, and rcirc-mentions-prev (p) to move to the previous mention.

Installation & Usage

Add the following to your .emacs file:

(use-package rcirc-mentions
  :after rcirc
  :config
  (rcirc-mentions-global-log-mode 1))

Questions & Patches

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Bugs

Bugs and requests can be reported here.

License

rcirc-mentions.el is licensed under the GPLv3 (or later).