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# telega.el and the Emacs community on Telegram
Gabriele Bozzola and Evgeny Zajcev

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Telegram is a cross-platform instant messaging system. The large number of
features and the widespread adoption make it a good choice for both private
conversations with friends and for large online communities. In this talk, I
am going to present the Emacs community on Telegram and its initiatives. I
am also going to discuss telega.el, the Emacs client for Telegram. telega.el
is a high-quality package that perfectly integrates in Emacs. It supports
the vast majority of the features supported by the official clients, while
adding several unique ones. In the talk, I will present the package and
highlight some of the most important features.

# Discussion

-   Q1: Do any of these main emacs telegram groups bridge to matrix?
    -   A: [Speaker] We discussed adding a bridge to matrix for the
        main channel @emacs_en. We never got around to doing it, but I
        can bring this up again. 
-   Q2: Could telega.el auto install TDLib like lsp-mode auto installs
    servers?
-   A: [Speaker] Possibly. The difference is that TDLib requires a
    number of dependencies that might not be available.  Evgeny chose
    another route to simplify setting up telega.el: the package can now
    be installed with a Dockerfile that also ships with also the
    optional dependencies. This ensures that everything works as
    intended.
- Does telega still require company for completion?
- Telegram has become a real (and desired) option to WhatsApp, thanks to telega.el

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