Provides buffers which watch and interact with multiple channels

Note: If you have been using Hexchat for a long time, your config/pevents.conf may be out of date. If you get a key error including events_decoded[event], please try deleting pevents.conf and restarting hexchat. (You can copy over any customizations you made)

Settings are available at the top of the script:

• server_name is the name of the server tab created
• focus_on_load causes the tab to be focused immediately when loaded
• hide_inline_channel replaces consecutive channel names with..
• inline_channel_prefix
• truncate_nick_inline shortens consecutive nicks to..
• truncate_nick_length
• colored_channel_names causes channel names to be colored similarly to "Colored nick names" in heXchat
• channel_colors provides a list of possible channel colors, the first of which is used if random colors is turned off.
• auto_target enables updating the channel target based on last action time
• auto_target_action is either "clear" to remove the outdated target, or "update" to change it to the new channel
• auto_target_delay seconds, unless there is no current target, in which case after..
• auto_target_delay_empty seconds

Complete features:

• Monitor multiple channels in a single buffer
• Most-recent-first channel and nick tab-completion

Incomplete:

• Create and manage multiple overwatches with different channel lists
• Target channel based on recent nickname autocomplete
• Provide secondary tabs to summarize hilights
• Options menu to manage overwatches
• Better shortcuts

Shortcuts:

• tab and shift-tab
• With less than two words, tab-completes channels
• With more than one word, tab-completes nicks
• alt-backspace clears entry and sets target to the last channel you sent to

Issues:

• Channel commands/Actions are not reliably caught or passed on
• Multiple channels with the same name will currently break
• Can get hard to track with lots of busy channels (Helped by random colors)
• Channel tab completion is still a bit derp
• While modular, the UI/commands to make multiple and manage filter lists for overwatches is not done