Just highlight a whole line when it starts with your current nick? or something more complicated? Use colons to be smart somehow? What does irssi do?

Some of the earliest code left, still likely buggy, defintely hard to read/work with

Should the prompt show your nick by default? should it allow custom prompt strings? Can I do this without parsing?

the readline library supports autocompletion via a custom function. Maybe use /names output?

Should be relatively easy due to recent refactoring

maybe nick color = default, auto, or a selected color
same for "window" color
and self color too

possibly more items? like "server" color or "accent" color (which would not have an auto option)?

Specifically SendPM, dispErr

should be pretty easy, need to put together the protocol messages

Currently, everything is underscore_based instead of the suggested smallCaps, which will make a difference when splitting things into libraries and imports

Possibly using the mirc system?

Possibly pre-hash all of the names in a channel? (could be an issue for huge channels) (async?)

hash table that populated with 256 colors when more new colors come up? (still requires 'hashing' each time a message is recieved)

Especially in the server processing. If the irc struct can apply to errors, everything can be dispMsg and the case statement can just "return" a struct, that gets displayed (similar to how procinput works)

most server messages are given verbatim or ignored. need to make these more useful to give the client context, and not look terrible.

how do? custom parsing? simple format that leverages the existing flag parsing?

Should it have a windowed mode that re-renders the text when you switch back and forth instead of just listing out all of the messages?