[colorize_nicks.py] colorizes the middle of a word

[mgedmin]

There's a user with nick e in the #vim channel on FreeNode. This results in

What is strange to me is that only the e in new is highlighted: the e in maybe, or open or files or :tabe or :e are not highligted (nor should they be! except maybe the e in :e might make sense).

[sim642]

What value do you have set for colorize_nicks.look.greedy_matching? By default it is on but I've found off` to work better in general, maybe that also fixes this.

Also what value do you have for colorize_nicks.look.min_nick_length? By default it should be 2, so just "e" shouldn't ever be handled. Unless the issue is deeper than that.

[mgedmin]

I don't remember ever changing any settings. ~/.weechat/colorize_nicks.conf has

[look]
blacklist_channels = ""
blacklist_nicks = "so,root"
colorize_input = off
greedy_matching = on
ignore_nicks_in_urls = off
ignore_tags = ""
match_limit = 20
min_nick_length = 2

Looking at the code, I think I see how the min_nick_length can be circumvented: the length check happens before the

        # If the matched word is not a known nick, we try to match the
        # word without its first or last character (if not a letter).
        # This is necessary as "foo:" is a valid nick, which could be
        # adressed as "foo::".

logic, which then cuts off the first : in :e.

[weechatter]

disable greedy_matching first:
/set colorize_nicks.look.greedy_matching off