People have written several things having to do with
irc and
e2.
But, none of them do the best possible thing - convert phrases with brackets around them in an irc client into links to e2.
>There is something analagous you can do with
web browsers using
javascript bookmarklets - you can create a bookmarklet that opens a new window at a URL gotten from any text you select. Or, you can make it do a
google search for whatever text you've selected. But it is probably harder to make
IRC Clients do this.