Quoting my use of $+(*,$me,*) shows you obviously did not finish reading the very next line of my post... I'm sure you've come to learn what an example is by now.
I should also point out that even in this case you know exactly what you're looking for-- again, repeating my initial post, you have the list of highlight matches ($highlight(N)) to search from. A one line script can do this just fine.
In any case-- I think you're feature creeping. The OP wasn't even necessarily talking about mIRC's highlight functionality. Rather than form a conclusion, you should probably ask him what specific lines he's looking to match. If he indeed knows what match he's looking for then this entire conversation is pointless -- both /findtext and /filter are highly sufficient and *are* the feature he's requesting. Another UI wouldn't make this any easier unless mIRC improved /findtext to support regex matching.
