Often when chatting on IRC one spends much of the time just typing in people's nicknames. This can get tedious, so many clients have some kind of automatic completion facility that works out whose nick the user is trying to type and finishes the job for the user. This paper will explain the nick-completion functionality provided in several popular IRC clients.
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