sorry if i seemed offensive but I get that way when people misunderstand what I've clearly said multiple times.
multiple people pasted examples or talked about methods that wouldn't keep all control codes intact.
also in hixxy's method is it possible to apply background colors, underline, bold, reverse to the nick?
edit:
I'm sitting down to work out the bug or two in my highlight script so I can post something that will show you what I'm looking for, since words and simple examples don't seem to get what I want across.
edit of edit:
well my script is looking good with only one little bug i need to fix. I just need a method to replace stuff to fix it.
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/3226/image2um.pnghttp://pball.pastebin.com/Tnp60V1Tpicture of input/outputs and the script with all the examples used and explanation of the action text bug