[Feature Request] Message Filter

[oz]

I want messages (in the chat or event area) to be filtered on client side.

Best (and most difficult) would be to filter it by type:
Every output gets a type like "chat", "teamchat", "tell", "echo", "vote", "kill" or "score". The user can set local vars to control the output. For example like filter="vote,teamchat,tell,score" to set what to show or hide and filter_is_blacklist=1 to invert the matching.

Second best would be to filter by POSIX regular expression or simple string matching:
Again the user can set local vars to control the output. For example like filter="tells you|calls a vote|fragged" to set the pattern, filter_type="regexp" to select between possible types of matching and filter_invert=1 to invert matching.


There may be an alternative way to do that, if there would be a command to delay execution of an alias without blocking all other user commands.
If a command like that would be present, please tell me, because I could use it to start a self refernecing alias as a loop that dumps messages to be filtered by an external program. The external program could write a script echoing messages in a special way and the loop alias could execute this script.
Anyways, I am concerned about memory consumption of self referencing aliases; this seems to be recursive after all ...

[[-z-]]

This would be a nice option to have.

[divVerent]

Unfortunately very hard to do... the client does not know about message types. Basically, the only thing the client knows is whether the message starts with a beep character (chat) or not (regular game message). And RE filtering won't ever be able to filter absolutely right.

For example, if you match /.*killed.*/, you will also match all lines with a player name SkilledNoob. If you are more clever and match /\bkilled\b/, you'll match "Who killed who?".

[oz]

divVerent, you are absolutely right, but RE filtering would be better than nothing. I rather get some false positives than all that other freaky stuff...

Some people really spam with team messages and if one starts a vote about that nobody else seems to care. Afterwards they start votes against the previous voter and say things like "F1 for god mode"... Sometimes people fall for that one... I just don't wanna know about his at all.

Other people always talk about how n00b everyone is and how everyone cheats or camps... blah. I don't want to read that all the time between the important messages, like votes.


Apropos: Is there a way to filter chat messages with iptables? Just an idea, tho.

[[-z-]]

Yes, I don't care about false positives either. My spam filter isn't 100% accurate but that doesn't mean I'm going to stop using it. My inbox would cry.

On a side note, this got me thinking.

(12:16:24a) <@[-z-]> hey, I just had an idea
(12:16:38a) <@[-z-]> is there a way to trigger a timer on a votecall?
(12:16:47a) <@[-z-]> that is, if someone were to call a vote
(12:16:56a) <@[-z-]> can I have it vote no automatically in 5 seconds?
(12:17:06a) <@[-z-]> maybe 10
(12:17:09a) <+AceOfThumbs> dunno, but that would be nice

[divVerent]

LOL. Such a feature will never come. Can just as well disable the vote system then.

As for re matching... only votes match ^\*. Chat messages match ^< and team chat messages match ^\(. But that's all you can reliably check for.