I finally found some free time and updated my hilightphrase XChat python plugin.

The Changes:

1. When listing out the highlighted strings, they are displayed in a separate tab instead of the current tab
2. The list of phrases contains are numbered so that you can delete them using the index instead …

I wrote the following xchat plugin after they decided to “fix” the Extra words to highlight feature in XChat 2.8.6

The python plugin can be downloaded here

__module_name__ = 'hilight-phrase'
__module_description__ = 'XChat notification and hilighting on phrases instead of single words'
__module_version__ = '2.0'

import xchat, os, re

CONFFILE …