Nick highlight function

[vibhavp]

A user defined function called when the users nick gets highlighted in a channel would be a nice feature.

[jorgenschaefer]

Oh, just over a year since this issue was created! :-)

This should work:

(circe-add-message-handler "PRIVMSG" 'my/handle-highlight)
(defun my/handle-highlight (nick user host command args)
  (when (string-match (with-circe-server-buffer (regexp-quote circe-server-nick))
                      (cadr args))
    ...))

While I think an accessor function for the current nick would be nice, I don't think this is particularly cumbersome to warrant a special hook.

Any opinions?

[wasamasa]

It would be nice to have a dedicated function (or rather, variable with a function name doing the work as value) in combination with a list of regular expressions it is fired for.

I'm using this and that for my own handling of highlights. It would be nice to be able to simplify it.

[jorgenschaefer]

Actually, (circe-server-nick) already does what I meant above … doh self.

@wasamasa, does not sound complicated at all. Something like this?

(defvar circe-message-regex-handlers nil
  "List of (regex . handler) pairs.                                             

If a PRIVMSG matches REGEX, HANDLER is called with the usual                    
nick/user/host/command/args arguments.")

(circe-add-message-handler "PRIVMSG" 'circe-message-regex-handler)
(defun circe-message-regex-handler (nick user host command args)
  (dolist (entry circe-message-regex-handlers)
    (when (string-match (car entry)
                        (cadr args))
      (funcall (cdr entry) nick user host command args))))

[wasamasa]

Hmm, that looks a bit too flexible (and rather like something I'd use for an IRC bot, not myself), I rather thought of separating the handler and the regular expression since I only have one function I'm firing, but many more regular expressions.

It shouldn't really matter though since I could just use regexp-opt to combine my list into a single regular expression.