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Can you add colers to stuff writed in to a ini file?

or is it a limit in ini files?

No, you cannot put control codes into an INI unless you manually do so. However, you can convert them to something else, then convert them back later.

For example, if you know that your INI will never use ~, you can replace the Ctrl-K with ~ when writing the INI and replace the ~ with ctrl-k when reading the INI.

If you wanted to be more careful about what character is used, then write a group of characters in place of Ctrl-K... rather than just ~, you might use ^&@ or something.

I've juste tested, and yes you can !
Try the following command:

Then open the test.ini file to see your work :o)
Now, make a simple $readini using as second parm, 'p' instead of 'n'.

Reminder:
CtrlK = $chr(3)
CtrlB = $chr(2)
CtrlU = $chr(31)
CtrlO = $chr(15)
CtrlR = $chr(22)

The problem is you use /writeini in the editbox with only one / and you already know that in remote, $chr(3) will be evaluated so you have to use $!chr(3).

You can use this method but the fact is that mirc not accept color his proper .ini file (create with /writeini)

It isn't always a good idea to evaluate text that is read using $read or $readini. Especially text that can be set by a user other than yourself as the author of the script.

It's better imo, and safer, to $replace $chr(3) with some other character or characters and then $replace it back later.