MUSHclient Channel Color Coding

For a simple way to color-code your channels in MUSHclient, follow these steps:


 * Enter this on the command line: @set me=ansi; @set me=color; @set me=faction_colors; @set me=xterm256

This sets the Pennmush code allowing you to see colors.


 * Open MUSHclient's configuration options by clicking on Game > Configure > Triggers as shown below.

MUSHclient's Triggers Configuration screen opens as show below. This displays any existing triggers.


 * Click on the Add button beneath the list of existing triggers.

The Edit Trigger screen opens as shown below.


 * In the Trigger box, enter, for example: ^ .*$

I'm not so great on regular expressions, but that translates to something like:

^ 		- beginning of line indicator  	- the actual trigger text which will set off the trigger .* 		- wildcard characters that indicate any other text on the line $ 		- end of line indicator

So, the above trigger is set off by a line that begins with  and has some text after it before the line ends.


 * On the right side of the "Send:" box are a series of checkboxes. Check on "Enabled" and "Regular expression". Ignore the rest.


 * Lastly, click on the left-hand drop-down box in the section labeled "Change colour and style to:". This shows the available custom colors. Select one of them. The right-hand box next to it, filled in with "Both", indicates what elements are to be set. The options are Text, Back, or Both, AKA foreground, background, or both. Beneath that box, it shows the custom colors you just selected, the left box being the foreground and the right box background. Click the OK button on the Edit Trigger Screen to accept the change and close the window. Click the OK button again to close the Configuration screen.

Note that there is an "Other" option on the custom colors drop-down list, but it requires knowledge of color-picking in standard graphics software like Photoshop and others. If you click on that, it will allow you to define your own color, if the custom colors on the list don't suit you. The drop-down list will close, and "Other" appears in the "Change colour and style to:" box. The two colored boxes that indicate your fore- and background colors will be black. To define your new foreground color, click on the the left color box (text) and pick your color. If desired, do the same for the right (background) color box.

Do the same if you want to color code any other channels, substituting , ,  or whatever else you want to color-code. This will suppress ansi in chantitles, because it's overwriting it in the selected color.