How do I add brackets around my nick and someone elses nick when they send a message?
In XChat’s default state, XChat indents the messages from the nick for Channel Messages. In this state, having brackets around nicknames is less important, as the message and nick are already visually separated, but the <>s still show up when copying text. If you have done /set text_indent off however, the nick and message appear to run together. To get the <>s back, you can either install a XChat Theme that already has the <>s, you you can modify the Channel Message, Channel Msg Hilight, and Your Message Text Events to remove the instances of %H.