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Speaking of IRC clients, I don't understand why one particular feature that has been requested all time (feature request in various clients I've gone through) but never implemented - keyword highlight and notification, but customizable depending on the channel. This way you don't have to pay visual attention to certain channels.

And I thought the need is common enough and it's easy enough to implement..



Huh? You mean like section 9 of: https://github.com/irssi/irssi/blob/master/docs/manual.txt ?

Or did you mean for quassel in particular? I guess there's wip for it?

http://bugs.quassel-irc.org/projects/quassel-irc/wiki/GSoC_2...


This is definitely possible in Quassel - Each highlight rule has a regex for the message, and a regex for the channel. Only if both match, it will highlight.

This means you can get highlights on every message in channel #support, or highlights on "quassel" in every channel.


Perfect, then I'd definitely switch from LimeChat. I thought it wasn't possible because of this http://bugs.quassel-irc.org/issues/1348 , and saw no mention of it in the doc. I guess it's just a request for blacklist instead.


I never faced this need and is the first time I saw it stated.

If it appeared in various clients and got implemented in none then it should be a reason. Examples: - It is not a need for enough people - No developer suffers your problem (you can always try to do the PR by yourself)

This feature requests got ignored or received some reply by devs? I am curious.


e.g. https://github.com/psychs/limechat/issues/31 I remember I spent quite a bit of fruitless time searching for a reasonably good looking and well maintained one having such feature on OSX.


Thankfully, Textual¹ is capable of this.

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¹ — https://www.codeux.com/textual/


So do it. You could build it as an irssi or znc plugin


WeeChat does this, I use it to monitor channels for keywords that interest me. More signal, less noise ;)




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