I don't know what world you live on Argv... but please think thru things before you going yapping on about stuff you make up as you go along.
You state:
You can always use $editbox($active) to get the non-space-modified data in the editbox if that's all you're looking for (since identifiers tokenize by commas, not spaces), but you could never use it in any commands, so it wouldn't help much.
Let me clarify what you are saying. You mean that the identifier is processed before the command, and that the command strips out multiple spaces. This is the same w/ $1-.
Also, what the hell is up w/ your $sp idea? It's an IDENTIFIER! When used w/ any command it suddenly becomes useless. Hmmm... really didn't think it thru did you...
Look Khaled has dug himself into a hole so deep now that he really can't get out. You honestly think if a Unicode version is ever released (which is a big if) that it won't drop it's current script language (which is not grammatically consistent in the least). I've been working w/ mIRC for like 13 or 14 years now. It's clear that a lot of bad decisions we're made early on. I recall when Khaled pissed off every other IRC client developer w/ his wacko color protocol. It didn't matter that an existing one worked just fine, until he released his and just made things hell for the developers. He always said he would revise it but did he? Nope...
Well that is some rant...
