It'd be nice if we could get either a $highlighted identifier or an on HIGHLIGHT event.





I really think this would be useful. Thanks ^^

$highlight would be much better than an extra event.

Of course there's already an identifier named $highlight, though poorly named..

Problem being it only returns information about highlight properties and not if highlight occured in an event. It's nothing like what I'm requesting above as far as I know.

This is what the current $highlight identifier does:

$highlight($1-) should do what you want. If it doesn't match any highlight entries it will return $null, otherwise you can assume a match was made.

By the way, it would be nice if something was done about the inherent limitation of such a syntax (problematic when $1- from the event happens to be a number), essentially the same issue as with $timer().

And this so belonged in the help section, sorry ^^; Thanks again argv0.

Maybe we can get querty said fixed instead, cause I actually ran into that problem with cline, people had nicks as numbers, so I just eventually fed it the position number on the list. But yeah was a confusing thing ^^;

The issue qwerty described should only occur if the entire line is a single number,

For instance

$highlight(1 2 3) will be treated as text
similarly, $highlight(mynick5) will also be text

The only issue would be that $highlight(1) will not. however, it's rare that you have a line $1- that is entirely numeric (and will match a highlight rule). This was probably not your issue.

I've actually ran into this problem a few times where the line consisted out of just a number which caused my script to tag the line as highlighted.

so I always do something in the line of "if $1 !isnum && $highlight($1-)" instead of only the $highlight check.