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[Joe Talbott <joe.talbott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:37:18PM -0500, Paul Larson wrote:
> I've been using xchat for ages, but everything I've tried to get @ci or
> even #ci to be recognized as a highlight word by xchat has failed so far.
> After a bit of digging, I found
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Stalkwords#X-Chat_.26_HexChat which
> helpfully pointed me at a perl script to allow regex highlight matching in
> xchat. I haven't tried it yet, and I'm reluctant due to a bit of nasty
> history with xchat plugins.  A better solution in the long run may be a
> different attention string, or a different irc client. I thought I'd throw
> this out there just in case others are hitting this too though.

+1.  How about 'cihelp'.  It shouldn't show up in normal conversations.
mup won't complain.  Paul will be able to get highlight working.

Thanks,
Joe