Small little extension for ttytter that allows you to highlight the names of certain users. I also changed the way tweets are displayed to suit my liking. To use it run ttytter -exts=customTtyTterOutput.pl

customTtyTterOutput.pl

use Term::ANSIColor;

#Open a text file with a list of users to highlight
open our $handle, '<', "/home/<your username>/tweetersToHighlight.txt";
chomp(our @customConsole.pl = <$handle>);
#Convert array to hash/dictionary
our %users = map { $_ => 1 } @customConsole.pl;
close $handle;
#Setup ttytter hook
$handle = sub {
    #Store reference to the origin function
    my $ref = shift;
    #Store the text for later processeing (even though i never got to it)
    my $text = &descape($ref->{'text'});
    #If the user is in the highlight file then color the username red
    if($users{$ref->{'user'}->{'name'}}){
        print color 'bold red';
        print $streamout (&descape($ref->{'user'}->{'name'})," (@",&descape($ref->{'user'}->{'screen_name'}),") : \n");
        print color 'reset';
        print $streamout ("\t[ ", $text, " ]", "\n");
        return 1;
    }else{
        #Otherwise print my custom output
        print color 'reset';
        print $streamout (&descape($ref->{'user'}->{'name'})," (@",&descape($ref->{'user'}->{'screen_name'}),") : \n");
        print $streamout ("\t[ ", $text, " ]", "\n");
        return 1;
    }
};

@the-solipsist Didnt see your message till now , but not sure what you mean by point [1] , as for the double effect , yes you can , you should ideally not call the default handler which is what returning what should have done.