Autoreplace outgoing text in XChat with Python
Having grown to like some unicode characters while talking on xchat, I decided there was a better way to enter them than to use CTRL+SHIFT+U + Numbers (linux) every time again. So I dug into the Python XChat interface a bit and threw together a quick script that will check everything you write and replace certain things with prettier unicode variants. Figured I'd post it here in case someone somewhere can find it useful.
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- __module_name__ = "Unicode" __module_version__ = "0.1.20100130" __module_description__ = "Replaces random smileys with Unicode variants" import xchat def intercept_print(word, word_eol, userdata): line = word_eol[0] \ .replace("<3", "♥") \ .replace("=)", "ツ") \ .replace("^^", "^̮^") \ .replace("!!", "‼") \ .replace("°C", "℃") \ .replace("->", "→") \ .replace("=>", "⇒") xchat.command(" ".join(["msg", xchat.get_info("channel"), line])) return xchat.EAT_ALL # Empty command means catching normal text apparently xchat.hook_command("", intercept_print)
Note that I have neither much experience in Python, nor in XChat programming so I'd not be surprised if there are cleaner/more efficient ways to go at it.
