any way to get rid of servernames in emotes?

[Joey Ray III]

Jimmy-BurningLegion hugs Joan-LightningsBlade just looks very silly imo.

don't need them in raid frames either, just tooltip will do.

i found an addon (phanxchat) that cleans them up from chat but can't find anything for emotes/raid frames.

(shit, probably should go to interface and macros forum)

[Tziva]

I don't know the answer, but I moved ya to Interface & Macros.

Good luck!

[Deleted]

Try this:

local function c(n) return n:match("^([^%-]+)%-") or n end
ChatFrame_AddMessageEventFilter("CHAT_MSG_EMOTE",function(self,event,msg,send,lang,chan,target,...)
    return false, msg, c(send), lang, chan, c(target), ...
end)

How to use. Untested.

[Joey Ray III]

doesn't seem to work. i followed the instructions and the addon loads but i still see server names.

[Crudor]

Replace "CHAT_MSG_EMOTE" with "CHAT_MSG_TEXT_EMOTE", I believe that's what the event is called.

Edit: After taking a closer look at the code this seems to do the trick for me:

local function c(n) return n:gsub("%'%a*",""):gsub("%-%a*","") end
ChatFrame_AddMessageEventFilter("CHAT_MSG_TEXT_EMOTE",function(self,event,msg,send,lang,chan,target,...)
   return false, c(msg), c(send), lang, chan, c(target), ...
end)

(Although it could turn out to be even more complicated, if there are hyphens or apostrophes in the actual emote text).

[Deleted]

Are we talking about custom emotes using /me, or premade emotes (like /hug)?

[Joey Ray III]

Replace "CHAT_MSG_EMOTE" with "CHAT_MSG_TEXT_EMOTE", I believe that's what the event is called.

Edit: After taking a closer look at the code this seems to do the trick for me:

(Although it could turn out to be even more complicated, if there are hyphens or apostrophes in the actual emote text).

that worked, thx both of you.

can this possibly mess up custom emotes if people use hyphens/apostrophes?

Are we talking about custom emotes using /me, or premade emotes (like /hug)?

both. i want them server names out of my chat ;p