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9 jabber.el is a Jabber client for Emacs.
16 - Latest release: [[http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=88346&package_id=92339&release_id=482983][0.7.1]] (31-Jan-2007)
17 - Latest pretest release: [[http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=88346&package_id=278300&release_id=662240][0.7.93]] (19-Feb-2009)
18 - Full [[list-of-releases][list of releases]], including lists of features and changes
22 - [[http://sourceforge.net/projects/emacs-jabber/][Sourceforge project page]], containing:
24 [[http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=586350&group_id=88346&func=browse][bugs]],
25 [[http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=586353&group_id=88346&func=browse][feature requests]],
26 [[http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=586352&group_id=88346&func=browse][patches]] and
27 [[http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=586351&group_id=88346&func=browse][support requests]], open for anonymous posters
28 - [[http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=88346][forums]], open for anonymous posters
29 - [[http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/JabberEl][the JabberEl page of EmacsWiki]]
30 - Mailing lists (also available at [[http://gmane.net][Gmane]]):
31 - [[http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emacs-jabber-general][emacs-jabber-general]], for posts by humans (also [[http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.jabber.general][gmane.emacs.jabber.general]])
32 - [[http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emacs-jabber-commit][emacs-jabber-commit]], read-only mailing list of CVS commits (also [[http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.jabber.scm][gmane.emacs.jabber.scm]])
33 - [[http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emacs-jabber-bugs][emacs-jabber-bugs]], read-only mailing list of bug tracker activity (also [[http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.jabber.bugs][gmane.emacs.jabber.bugs]])
34 - the Jabber chat room
35 #+HTML: <a href="xmpp:jabber.el@conference.jabber.se?join">jabber.el@conference.jabber.se</a>
36 - the [[file:manual-0.7.1/][manual for jabber.el 0.7.1]] (also included in the release files)
40 Jabber is an open instant messaging (IM) system, also known as XMPP.
41 It is described in [[http://www.xmpp.org/rfcs/][RFCs 3920-3923]] and a series of [[http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/][XEPs]] (XMPP Extension
42 Proposals). That is, unlike legacy IM systems (such as ICQ or MSN
43 Messenger), the protocol is published in the open, free for anyone to
44 implement. Therefore you shouldn't be surprised that there is a
45 Jabber client for Emacs, too. (If you are not of the Emacs
46 persuasion, see this [[http://www.jabber.org/software/clients.shtml][list of Jabber clients]].)
48 Jabber is, like e-mail, a decentralised system. A Jabber identifier
49 (JID) is of the form =username@server=, just like an e-mail address, and
50 every Jabber user whose server is open to Internet connections can
51 communicate with any other user. This is in stark contrast to the
52 legacy "walled-garden" IM systems, where you need a separate account
53 for each system to be able to communicate with its users. Note that
54 the [[http://talk.google.com][Google Talk]] service is an XMPP service, so if you have a GMail
55 account, you already have a JID ending with =@gmail.com=.
57 In Jabber, you have a "roster", a list of contacts. You can see
58 which of them are online at the moment, and chat with them. (You can
59 also send messages to an offline contact, and the message will be
60 stored on the server for later delivery.) Jabber also supports
65 jabber.el is a Jabber client for Emacs. It may seem strange to have a
66 chat client in an editor, but consider that chatting is, after all,
67 just a special case of text editing.
69 * Downloading and installing
73 Note that jabber.el is available as [[http://packages.debian.org/emacs-jabber][emacs-jabber in Debian]], and in
74 [[http://packages.ubuntu.com/emacs-jabber][Ubuntu's "universe" section]].
78 jabber.el requires either GNU Emacs 22, or GNU Emacs 21 combined with
79 Gnus 5.10. You should get these from your distribution, or from the
80 [[http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/][Emacs]] and [[http://gnus.org][Gnus]] web sites.
82 However, if you want to connect to servers that use SRV records
83 (e.g. Google Talk), it is recommended to use either No Gnus or Gnus
86 If you want encrypted connections (some servers, e.g. Google Talk,
87 require it), you need [[http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/][GnuTLS]] installed.
91 Download the [[impatient][latest release]] and unpack it in a suitable location. Add
92 something like the following to your =.emacs= file:
96 (add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/emacs-jabber")
97 ;; For 0.7.1 and below:
99 ;; For 0.7.90 and above:
100 (require 'jabber-autoloads)
103 Either evaluate those lines, or restart Emacs.
107 See the [[file:manual-0.7.1/Basic-operation.html][Basic Operation]] in the manual.
113 Bug reports can be sent either to the mailing list
114 [[http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emacs-jabber-general][emacs-jabber-general]] or to the [[http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=88346&atid=586350][bug tracker]].
119 jabber.el releases are, unfortunately, less frequent than they would
120 be in an ideal world. You can get the latest development version
121 using various version control systems.
125 See [[http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=88346][the Sourceforge CVS page]]. In short, run the following command:
128 cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@emacs-jabber.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/emacs-jabber co -P emacs-jabber
133 The GNU Arch mirror is no longer being updated.
138 git-clone git://git.catap.ru/emacs-jabber.git
144 The list of releases has been moved to a [[file:list-of-releases.org][separate page]].
148 # eval: (progn (add-to-list 'org-link-types "xmpp") (org-make-link-regexps))