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Hightlight a word, but only when it appears between special characters.

Hightlight a word, but only when it appears between special characters.

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Mesarthim (1 post)

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Fri 15 Sep 2023 08:57 PM (UTC)

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Hi there. I've figured out how to highlight words. As an example, I can highlight 'Public' in cyan, and that's great for visibility. But every time I walk into a new room, all instances of public are highlighted and that isn't what I need. I just want chat spam in the [Public] channel to be highlighted.

That's simple enough, add the [ and ] to the word and it's highlighted. But I don't want those characters highlighted. Only the word, but only the word when it's surrounded by those characters. How can I accomplish this?

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Posted by

Nick Gammon Australia (22,928 posts)

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Reply #1 on Sat 16 Sep 2023 10:45 PM (UTC)

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Put a backslash before the square brackets, ie.

\[Public\]

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com

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