Variable: erc-fool-highlight-type

erc-fool-highlight-type is a customizable variable defined in erc-match.el.gz.

Value

nick

Documentation

Determines how to highlight messages by fools.

Unlike with the \+pal and \+dangerous-host categories, ERC doesn't only attempt to match associated patterns (here, from erc-fools) against a message's sender, it also checks for matches in traditional IRC-style "mentions" in which a speaker addresses a USER directly:

  <speaker> USER: hi.
  <speaker> USER, hi.

However, at present, this option doesn't offer a means of highlighting matched mentions alone. See erc-pal-highlight-type for a summary of possible values and additional details common to categories like
\+fool that normally match against a message's sender.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/erc/erc-match.el.gz
(defcustom erc-fool-highlight-type 'nick
  "Determines how to highlight messages by fools.
Unlike with the \\+`pal' and \\+`dangerous-host' categories, ERC doesn't
only attempt to match associated patterns (here, from `erc-fools')
against a message's sender, it also checks for matches in traditional
IRC-style \"mentions\" in which a speaker addresses a USER directly:

  <speaker> USER: hi.
  <speaker> USER, hi.

However, at present, this option doesn't offer a means of highlighting
matched mentions alone.  See `erc-pal-highlight-type' for a summary of
possible values and additional details common to categories like
\\+`fool' that normally match against a message's sender."
  :type '(choice (const nil)
		 (const nick)
                 (const message)
		 (const all)))