Highlight whole line in IRSSI when nick is mentioned

Question

I can't seem to figure out how to visually highlight a line when my nick is mentioned... How can I do that in IRSSI?

I know that it lets you bold text, but I'm not sure if it's possible to do something more visual.

Answer 1

If you're using the default.theme or something close to it, just find the lines beginning with pubmsgmenick and menick and change them to be something like:

pubmsgmenick = "{msgnick $0 $1-}%R";
menick = "%R$*%n";

Where you can replace %R (dark red) with any color formats you want from http://irssi.org/documentation/formats, including bold, underline and highlighting. Just make sure to have as many %n's at the end of menick as color formats at the beginning so that it doesn't bleed over into the closing angle bracket of the nickname formatting.