Just been thinking about some new extensions to themeing..

I don't want to add internal scripting to irssi, but it's beginning to
look like there's no choice really. Perl would be one possibility, but
I'd rather not depend on it since I want at least the /NAMES thing to
be in default.theme..

Maybe a *SMALL* internal scripting support wouldn't be that bad. You
could use it in themes, simple aliases etc. but for REAL scripts you'd
still use perl.

I'd also want to change the /FORMATs so that no-one would touch them
anymore unless they wanted to change the actual english text. Everything
should be customizable from a theme file.

Below is some examples of what could be done with scripting - they
should be quite clear if you know any C-like language. I'm not sure if
$var[]s should be hashes or arrays, hashes probably.

##
## Indented nicks in .themes
##

# $0 = nick mode, $1 = nick
$indent($0-, 10, RIGHT_JUSTIFY)
 --> $indent("@cras", 10, RIGHT_JUSTIFY)
 -->      @cras

##
## WHOIS problem (well, not _really_ but..)
##

# with ISO-8859 charset ascii 160 looks like a space, so people can
# spoof that they're ops in some channel while they're really just op
# in "#channel1\160@#channel2" - underlining channel names would fix this

# $0 = channel, $1 = channels
$list($1, "%U$0%U", ", ")
 --> $list("#chan1 #chan2 #chan3", "%U$0%U", ", ")
 --> %U#chan1%U, %U#chan2%U, %U#chan3%U

##
## End of NAMES list problem - we don't want to show "0 halfops" etc.
##

# define an array
$nick_types[0] = "ops";
$nick_types[1] = "halfops";
$nick_types[2] = "voices";
$nick_types[3] = "normal";

# $0 = channel, $1 = nicks, $2 = ops, $3 = halfops, $4 = voices, $5 = rest
$list($2-, $0 > 0 ? $nick_types[$list_index()] : "", ", ")
 --> $list("53 0 0 92", $0 > 0 ? $nick_types[$list_index()] : "", ", ")
 --> 53 ops, 92 normal