To start Riece, follow the instruction below:
In case that Cannot open load file: riece is signalled in (1), you should probably have an installation problem. If you installed Riece from source tarball, please read README again. If you are trying to use a package distribution, check out the documentation.
Once Riece started successfully, you will be asked the name of the IRC server to connect. IRC servers publicly available are taken from the Web pages of IRC networks:
You may see the following message:
Nickname "ueno" already in use. Choose a new one:
In IRC, users are identified by nicknames. If the nickname you selected has already used by another person, you must select the new one.
In IRC, users join the channels to start multi user conversation. To join a channel, type C-c j. On IRCnet, there is a channel named #Riece where you can do some tests to get experienced with Riece.
After you joined a channel, the layout of windows are changed to the following:
+-----+-----------------+
| | |
| | |
| (1) | (2) |
| | |
| | |
+-----+-----------------+
| | (4) |
| +-----------------+
| (3) | |
| | (5) |
| | |
+-----+-----------------+
You can send messages by entering messages in (4). Messages from other persons are shown in (2).