Play with the On TABCOMP event, if you don't want to get sucked down a rabbit hole of rewriting mIRC's On INPUT behaviors.

You can examine the $editbox($active) and detect if the right-most character 'if ($right($editbox($active),1) == :)' equals a colon. Replace it with a goofy unicode chevron and /halt or /haltdef. Otherwise /return to take no special replacive action.

Last edited by Raccoon; 16/12/18 11:02 PM. Reason: i'm a maroon

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