Inline formatting of text using * or _

[RCMainak]

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Hello everyone! This is not my strength to write C++ code or whatever you guyz write. I think it would be nice if the text inside the astricks( * ) sign turns into BOLD and the text enclosed by underscore( _ ) turns into italic . I think it's not hard to do just needs someone to care enough.

[staticfox]

Basically how Skype works?

[Dessa]

i think irssi does at least the former as well.

[wodim]

Irssi does it with * too. It's something to think about.

[extioStorm]

a script can solve something this simple? talking about the text sent to the chat room?

[un1versal]

GitHub mardown does

*this is italic* this is italic **this is bold** this is bold ***this is bold italic*** _this is bold italic_

We already have bold with other ctrl characters, what we dont have is italic

[un1versal]

correction we now have italic

[un1versal]

Do we really want to implement this? Why is this better than the control characters we have now?

[Heufneutje]

I wouldn't mind seeing it as an alternative to control characters ~~clientside~~ during input and just have KVIrc translate them to control characters upon sending.

[un1versal]

yes sure, but its not any easier to get than a ctrl char as you still need to press the same amount of keys to get either * or _

and this request only accounts for Bold, what about italic, underline, what about _italic bold_ or italic underline (github cant underline) what about for italic bold and underline? how many of these shall we use?

clearly not a skype user...