Prat 3.0
In loving memory of Jon Akthar (Sylvanaar)
Hello WoW community, I'm LuciferCatnip, Sylvanaar was my coworker and my mentor. It goes without saying that Jon was an amazingly talented individual. He always seemed to know everything… but he once said to me "It's not about knowing the answers, it's about asking the right questions", he always challenged me to ask me the right questions until I would arrive at the answer on my own terms. Jon was also a champion of the open source movement, and so with special thanks to Gil from Curseforge as well as Sylvanaar's family, there's no better way to honor Sylvanaar's legacy than to keep his project going strong in the community.
If you'd like to help maintain Prat, please reach out to MysticalOS or LuciferCatnip directly. Thank you so much.
About
Prat-3.0 is a chat enhancement addon for World of Warcraft.
It is made up of 30+ smaller "modules" which each provide additional functionality, and can be enabled or disabled individually.
In game, type /prat for a menu. Or use the icon on one of the many data broker hosts.
Prat has just about every feature you can think of, and then some. Really. When I get some more time, I'll try and put together a full list (Even I have lost count)
(Thanks to Dreamsight for this partial list)
- Sync your chat settings across your account (Beta)
- Machine learning powered spam filter (Beta)
- Change arrows, buttons, mouse scroll for chat scroll, scroll speed
- you can add player color per channel, color per level, color per class
- timestamps (styled)
- Whether to show timestamp (what format the timestamp should be in)
- Whether to show players level
- You can select the option for channel "stickys" (last channel you used you auto use when hitting enter, that sort of thing – or last thing someone said)
- Change the looks of the chat's editbox - as well as where it appears (you can even undock it and move it to where you'd like it to be)
- Chat fading, fading delay
- You can change the font to a list of fonts, add an outline to it, monochrome it (if you don’t mind messing with files a bit you could probably even add other fonts to that list)
- Change the chat frame/chat box appearance
- Keep chat history between game sessions
- Set channel abbreviations
- Set brackets and color(or something instead of brackets)round player/lvl
- Alt invite option (press keyboard “alt” button and click on the player’s name to auto inv them)
- Raid icon
- Invite links - click them to invite the person
- URL copying
- Full chat copying + copy button
- Click timestamp to copy line
- Configurable alerts when your name or other word is mentioned
- Enables tell target /tt which whispers your target
- Alias options - make macros into short commands
- See names of players Alt characters
- Change chat sounds (incoming and outgoing as well as per channel)
- Achievements info and grats
- Full chat search and search box
- Customizable filters for advanced users
- Show item icon next to item links and player class icon next to player names
- Icon-only options for newcomers chat
- Optional flashing or font color change for chat tabs when a new message comes in.
You can enable/disable all Prat modules - don't have to have the ones you don't use running
While trying to reduce resource utilization, it is also important to note that some people prefer the features, and don't care that an addon uses 500k more.

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Posted Mar 9, 2026In reply to QTartemis: Following up here after some playing around:
Updated Prat to current again (Prat-3.0-3.9.93), disabled all other addons, things are still auto-completing. This is on a Mac, on macOS Tahoe 26.3
Restarted and updated macOS to Tahoe 26.3.1 just in case there's something weird going on with the keyboard (which is working nominally otherwise) just in case that would resolve, but no luck.
Rolled Prat back through various versions until the issue resolved, looks like the issue started in 3.9.92 for release versions, and 3.9.91-1-g885196c for non-release versions.
3.9.92 - issue present
3.9.91 - resolved
(continued backward anyway, for science)
3.9.90 - no issue
Reinstalled 3.9.92 - issue returned.
Rolled back to 3.9.91 again - issue resolved.
Then explored non-release versions:
3.9.91-1-g885196c - issue returned
3.9.91-3-g9c3d9dd - issue present
3.9.91-5-gf0d2ae7 - issue present.
Thanks for seeing if you can track this down. Cheers :)
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Posted Mar 9, 2026In reply to QTartemis: WoW retail w/Midnight. Indeed, disabling the Alias module resolves the issue. (But I LOVE the alias module XD).
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Posted Mar 9, 2026In reply to TeaandthePuzzle: That does definately help narrow it down to a potential change in the Alias module... If you disable that in Prat, does it still do it? Which version of WoW are you running?
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Posted Mar 10, 2026In reply to TeaandthePuzzle: If you run `/listaliases`, do you have any in there? That could well be the likely cause of it is that you have aliased something, and the job of that module is to auto-replace the short alias with the long term macrod, e.g. `/zz` -> `/sleep`
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Posted Mar 10, 2026In reply to QTartemis: Ah, I think that may be why? I do have /l for /lean, and /ca for /cancelaura, but they're completing when i simply continue typing, not when i press space/enter. Fortunately, I rarely use those two, they've been setup for probably well north of a year. Was the change in the module to process the replacement as soon as it is typed, rather than after pressing space/enter?
Here's my full list. As you can see, I adore this module:
11:23:09» Prat 3.0: Alias: /ld aliased to "/script c_partyinfo.delveteleportout()"
11:23:09» Prat 3.0: Alias: /d aliased to "/dance"
11:23:09» Prat 3.0: Alias: /n aliased to "/mountspecial"
11:23:09» Prat 3.0: Alias: /lp aliased to "/script c_partyinfo.leaveparty()"
11:23:09» Prat 3.0: Alias: /ca aliased to "/cancelaura"
11:23:09» Prat 3.0: Alias: /x aliased to "/sleep"
11:23:09» Prat 3.0: Alias: /k aliased to "/kneel"
11:23:09» Prat 3.0: Alias: /p5 aliased to "/1 %t 50%"
11:23:09» Prat 3.0: Alias: /p2 aliased to "/1 %t 25%"
11:23:09» Prat 3.0: Alias: /l aliased to "/lean"
11:23:09» Prat 3.0: Alias: /pp aliased to "/1 pulling %t"
11:23:09» Prat 3.0: Alias: /pd aliased to "/1 %t ded."
11:23:09» Prat 3.0: Alias: matching aliases found: 12
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Posted Mar 11, 2026In reply to TeaandthePuzzle: Yes, you're right, it was replacing the text. I will have this fixed shortly. With midnight changes, we had to change the way we were hooking things :) There's an alpha build going out with this resolved to ONLY apply it when you're pressing enter.
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Posted Mar 11, 2026In reply to QTartemis: Ooooh, awesome, thank you!
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Posted Mar 12, 2026In reply to TeaandthePuzzle: O, it appears to not process the aliases at all now, pressing enter or otherwise. XD
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Posted Mar 6, 2026Can confirm, deactivated the module FRAME actually fixed my issue with the size resetting, activing the FONT one also fixed mine
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Posted Mar 6, 2026In reply to Dreirak: This is now fixed in the latest alpha :)
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Posted Mar 6, 2026Hey, is it possible to add shadows to the bubble text when using the transparent option?
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Posted Mar 6, 2026Chat is not showing icon correctly with questie, confirmed that when Prat is disabled, the questie icon shows correctly:
This is TBC Classic Anniversary
https://imgur.com/a/Gu8pHrF
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Posted Mar 6, 2026The edit box anchor keeps reverting back to the bottom when it is set to top
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Posted Mar 6, 2026In reply to acceptableLateKite: I'm unable to replicate this. Which version of WoW and Prat are you running?
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Posted Mar 6, 2026Having an issue with last update.
Messages size and font have changed.
Not only in chat but also in Guild Discussion.
Turned off all other addons, still this issue.
Wow version : 12.0.1.66263
EDIT : Problem came from the module frame. I had to turn ON the module font to change the font back to defaut.
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Posted Mar 6, 2026In reply to yshinar: I've been able to replicate this issue, and will work on a fix :)
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Posted Mar 6, 2026In reply to yshinar: This is now fixed in the latest alpha :)
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Posted Mar 5, 2026Since new update my size of the writing doesn't stay registered and goes back to 14px each time i change tab wich is way too big
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Posted Mar 5, 2026In reply to Dreirak: I'm unable to replicate this issue.
Which game version are you running. Which addon version are you running. Have you tested it with just Prat?
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Posted Mar 6, 2026In reply to QTartemis: 3.9.91, does also the problem with only that addon activated yeah. 3.9.91-1-g885196c didn't fix the issue. Game version is 12.0.1 (66263)