rcirc

an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client written in Emacs Lisp. One of two IRC clients included in GNU Emacs since release 22.1, alongside ERC.
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rcirc

Summary

rcirc is an IRC client[1]. rcirc draws 13 Wikipedia views per month (irc_client category, ranking #14 of 27).[2]

Key Facts

  • rcirc's image is recorded as Rcirc screenshot freenode.png[3].
  • rcirc's instance of is recorded as IRC client[4].
  • rcirc's instance of is recorded as free software[5].
  • rcirc's movement is recorded as free software movement[6].
  • rcirc's developer is recorded as GNU Project[7].
  • rcirc's copyright license is recorded as GNU General Public License, version 3.0[8].
  • rcirc's programmed in is recorded as Emacs Lisp[9].
  • rcirc's subclass of is recorded as GNU Emacs[10].
  • rcirc's operating system is recorded as GNU[11].
  • rcirc's operating system is recorded as Q3251801[12].
  • rcirc's operating system is recorded as FreeBSD[13].
  • rcirc's operating system is recorded as Q34225[14].
  • rcirc's operating system is recorded as OpenBSD[15].
  • rcirc's operating system is recorded as macOS[16].
  • rcirc's operating system is recorded as Solaris[17].
  • rcirc's operating system is recorded as Microsoft Windows[18].
  • rcirc's part of is recorded as GNU Emacs[19].
  • rcirc's part of is recorded as list of Emacs implementations[20].
  • rcirc's has use is recorded as Q73[21].
  • rcirc's Commons category is recorded as Rcirc[22].
  • rcirc's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04gsb61[23].
  • rcirc's official website is recorded as http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/[24].
  • rcirc's copyright status is recorded as copyrighted[25].
  • rcirc's Mageia package is recorded as emacs[26].

Body

Publication

Part of include GNU Emacs[19], a text editor[27], founded in 1984[28] and list of Emacs implementations[20].

Subject and Themes

rcirc's movement is recorded as free software movement[6].

Why It Matters

rcirc draws 13 Wikipedia views per month (irc_client category, ranking #14 of 27).[2]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  24. [26] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [27] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). rcirc. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/rcirc
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