mirc /omsg vs /onotice

[imbezol <imbezol@criticaldamage.com>]

I've noticed that mirc uses both /omsg and /onotice to send messages to
all the ops in a channel. Now ideally the mirc users would know that
these two commands are not the same and that /onotice would send a
message in the channel window and be seen only by ops, while /omsg would
send a private msg to all the ops. Unfortunately mirc doesn't
distinguish between these commands like this and put them both in the
channel for all ops to see like an /onotice. So what's the problem? Most
mirc users do /omsg not /onotice to discuss things in op chat in the
channel. X-Chat however receieves /omsg messages privately and opens a
new tab for each person speaking with it. This makes it very difficult
to follow a conversation in opspeak. Anyone know a way to get messages
that are sent as "user: @#chan message" to show in the channel window
like mirc does instead of in a private tab? I can't even imagine trying
to fight with mirc users to get them to use the proper command
(/onotice). I'm including a small script that a friend wrote.. if you
know of a way to modify this to put the message into the correct window
rather than the server tab that would be appreciated too. Thanks.

IMbeZOL

perl script:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# Copyright (C) 2002 Robert Helgesson <rycee at home dot se>
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307,
USA.

use strict;

IRC::register("omsg", "0.0", "", "");

IRC::add_message_handler("PRIVMSG", "in_msg");

IRC::print("\0033:: omsg stuff loaded ::\003\n");

sub in_msg
{
	my ($line) = @_;

	$line =~ m/\:(.*?)\!.*?\sPRIVMSG\s(.*?)\s\:(.*)?/;

	my $nick = $1;
	my $to = $2;
	my $msg = $3;

	return 0 unless ( $to =~ /^@/ );

	IRC::print("OMSG: $nick - $to - $msg");

	return 1;
}



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