This page is devoted to the IRC bot, birny, who hangs out in channel #tcpip and channel #emacs on the freenode IRC network (http://www.freenode.net/). Birny was written by FranLitterio, who is the current maintainer. Birny is written in EmacsLisp and depends on ERC, the EmacsIRCClient. You can find birny’s source code at
http://world.std.com/~franl/my-bot.el. ← This link is dead (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/aurelien Aurélien)
The source code is licensed under the GNU General Public License (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html).
Birny’s cousin, ErBot, is also an EmacsLisp bot. He was written by DeepakGoel.
To use birny, say something he recogizes in the channel. You can speak privately to him using “/msg”. If you speak to him privately, he’ll answer you privately, otherwise he’ll answer in the channel. Say something that has one of these forms:
The former is a command to birny to do something. The latter is a request that birny lookup the definition of a word or phrase in his terminology database. To get an index of terms in his database, use the “.index” command. Birny understands the following commands:
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
These are features that would be nice: