Common word usernames being italicized is distracting

Suggestions of ways to fix this appreciated. Otherwise I'll remove the italic formatting, leaving text unformatted but with the same functionality. I strive towards less settings.

The only ways I can think of to make this work are:
- change the color instead of the formatting. There would have to be a setting to pick the color otherwise if the default annoyed someone it would be the same as this problem
- provide some way to do it only to the users I would actually like to see highlighted. I know BCDC++ offers a similar functionality using the Favorite Users concept, but that doesn't look like it exists here.

Ideally the nicks should be formatted as normal text and change appearance on mouse-over (example: underlined is used in gnome-terminal for urls). There was some discussion about this earlier. IIRC the argument was like this: the interactive nicks are implemented with gtk+ text tags, one tag per nick, not instance (i.e. several mentions of the same nick share one tag). Gtk can only set a global style for all instances of a tag, so hovering over a nick would highlight all instances of this nick, which isn't what we want. So it was deemed impossible to implement (too memory-intensive?)

I modified it to bold the text instead of italics, as IMO that looks better.

I'd say bold the first <Nick> (makes it a bit easier to see multiline texts and when someone pastes old conversation as the old conversation doesn't have nicks bolded). Nicks said in the actual line should be left without formatting, but right click functionality could be left there. And as an improvement, right click funtionality could be added to " nick[,.:?!]" also (currently it only matches " nick " as far as I remember).

--RZ