Use Slack from Emacs?

I chan check my mail and takes notes from Emacs, but I still have to switch applications to do all my work chats. Has anyone worked on a solution for using Slack from within emacs?

https://github.com/yuya373/emacs-slack I use it daily. It's both not very good and also hugely preferable to the nightmare hellscape of the official client.

:O Perfect.

Another alternative is combining [bitlbee](https://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/news.r.html) with [slack-libpurple](https://github.com/dylex/slack-libpurple) and using an emacs IRC client, such as the built-in [ERC](https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ERC). I used this back when I wanted both Discord and Slack available in the same emacs.

this is how emacs users prefer their programs. with all the wires exposed

What’s the recipe for discord? Any links, I’ve tried searching but came up empty.

It looks like [sm00th/bitlbee-discord](https://github.com/sm00th/bitlbee-discord) hasn't been updated in while, but I still use it. The current state pre-dates Discord threads, so if you're on a thread-heavy server it's not very useful. Bitlbee itself is a bit annoying to configure as well. I find that removing channels is kind of unstable (ERC disconnects), so often I'll hack on my account's xml file if I need to remove a channel. Note that if you're combining this with slack-libpurple, you need a special libpurple build of bitlbee. If you're using just bitlbee-discord, you don't need the libpurple build.

I love this description.

how is the thread support in emacs-slack? I've tried several other alternatives and they usually fall short: - weeslack (https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack): type /thread a1c to open a privmsg with the threads. it's ok - irccloud (https://www.irccloud.com/): similar to the official client in threading and web-based. using irccloud as an IRC BNC to slack causes threaded messages to be posted to the main channel - ripcord: (https://cancel.fm/ripcord/) shareware discord client with slack support. this is very usable and has a lot of potential but development is stalled.

It's fine, threads are essentially the same as channels or DMs. They open in a new buffer.

Didn’t work for me, enterprise restricted or sth.

yeah after reading this post I gave it a try but it hangs for me when I run the start function =/