The result for me when running
xchat -e irc://irc.freenode.net:8001/xchat
is that it opens xchat in a new instance and it doesn't open the channel #xchat.
The result for me when running
xchat -e irc://irc. freenode. net:8001/ xchat
is that it opens xchat in a new instance and it doesn't open the channel #xchat.