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How do I remove passwords and usernames from my emacs .init file?

Example: I have IRC username and password in my emacs .init file I share my .init file across devices using a public github repo I encrypt this heading in my .init to avoid showing org-encrypt-entry does NOT always encrypt upon saving file thus I…
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How do I connect to IRC using Emacs?

I want to get onto the #Emacs channel on Freenode. How do I do it?
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avoid emacs to lock down or crash when used for many tasks

I consider to start using emacs for IRC, SQL, Shell and maybe twitter and Feed reading. But than I wonder how power users of emacs deal with emacs being single threaded. So if I have one long-running task, like updating melpa packages, I can not…
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How to open an IRC session using SASL?

I would like to exchange on Freenode using ERC, however I do not know how to authenticate with SASL as required. -xxxxxx.freenode.net- *** Lookup up your hostname... -xxxxxx.freenode.net- *** Checking Ident -xxxxxx.freenode.net- *** Found your…
user19761
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Not getting notifications with rcirc-notify in OSX

I'm unable to get any notifications when getting pinged by people, or sending private messages. I'm running on osx and running terminal-notifier works fine. I've also tried to execute rcirc-notify-page-test function and it works as expected.…
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Automatic authentication in rcirc

I'm trying to achieve the automatic authentication of my registered nickname on Freenode, so that I can join the #emacs IRC channel. Since I upload my Emacs config to a public repository, I've opted to grab the personal data of my nickname and…
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Erc, rcirc, and circe, just won't connect

So this is quite strange and I'm not sure how solvable this will be. But yesterday erc was working just fine, and then today it is stuck on trying to connect to the server (irc.freenode.net) with the error of: Connection failed! Re-establishing…
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How to check if erc is running

I want to write a function that does one thing if erc is running and starts erc (using command erc) if not. I tried to write it myself, but I couldn't find out how to check if erc is running. How can I do this in elisp?
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mode-line refresh with alerts and weechat

Note - The original post incorrectly diagnosed this as a terminal issue. Further testing showed this not to be the case - the issue is a race condition in the alert package. I've crossed-out the now irrelevent bits of the post, and I've provided a…
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