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 Oct 14, 2014Seems ok in 6.0 tho the edit box font is kinda small and cant be changed.
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Posted Oct 11, 2014How do change the edit box size? Is it the tile size option?
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Posted Oct 8, 2014remote gulid chat doesn't show icon
When a guild mate is logged in using the Mobile Armory app's Remote Guild Chat feature, the expected icon doesn't show up in their chat lines.
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Posted Sep 30, 2014This addon still disables the option to right click report players. It's annoying to not have the feature to report shit
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Posted Sep 6, 2014Using the editbox module, I can no longer click to open the editbox for typing. That is important to do as certain situations it is the only means ot type in chat.
Is there a way to click to enable the editbox without disabling that module?
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Posted Aug 31, 2014As European player it bugs out when we crossrealm with Russian players.
When they write it only comes empty lines, Its something with their names? Beacuse only way for me to read what they say is to press the "copy text". Even if they only write in plain english
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Posted Aug 16, 2014However pls fix the right click option to report ppl for spam/cheating etc. This is an addon related error according to bliz where the option simply disapears if u dont click the player right away. On a crowded server u have to scroll up to be able to right click player names and then the option simply isnt there anymore. Hope you can get a fix on this soon. Please say something.
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Posted Sep 16, 2014+1
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Posted Aug 16, 2014The "nil history" error is when you have command history enabled, but for some reason, the SavedVariable file containing your history was deleted. Disable all the history settings in Prat, /reload, then reenable history, and /reload again.
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Posted Aug 11, 2014Can somebody pls explain this error, i can see it has something to do with bartender but not sure what??
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Posted Jul 26, 2014Is there a way to make it so you can set up a profile that can be pulled up on all your characters, windows and all, without having to make every window again toon, after toon, after toon.
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Posted Jul 26, 2014I tried typing /prat as suggested for the menu and wasn't able to pull anyting up. What on earth am I doing wrong? This seems like a really useful addon and I'm bummed I can't even open it's menu :c
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Posted Jul 25, 2014I'm looking into the Settings to try and change the sound that is triggered by incoming messages but for some reason the sound option isnt enterable?
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Posted Jul 16, 2014Why can't I have the edit box completely hidden when not in use?
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Posted Jul 16, 2014Does anybody know how to resize the font of the editbox? I only found this quite old bug report about it: http://www.wowace.com/addons/prat-3-0/tickets/561-cant-change-editbox-in-size/
An old macro like "/run ChatFrameEditBox:SetFont("Fonts\\ARIALN.TTF", 10)" also does not work.
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Posted Jul 5, 2014I have no idea what went wrong but after installing this add-on my computer started playing up keyboard wise after antering in the chat slash.. I got no function from the keyboard and esc opened up the windows menu.. idk what it is but it must be doing something outside of the game.
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Posted Jul 2, 2014could you please place a compatibility warning at the top somewhere, I know I should have known prat and elvui weren't compatible but I didn't think
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Posted Jun 27, 2014Great addon Ive been using it for years.
However pls fix the right click option to report ppl for spam/cheating etc. This is an addon related error according to bliz where the option simply disapears if u dont click the player right away. On a crowded server u have to scroll up to be able to right click player names and then the option simply isnt there anymore. Hope you can get a fix on this soon.
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Posted Jun 25, 2014add Editbox.lua, line 568:
if self.history_lines == nil then
return
end
to yoid the following error:
1658x Prat-3.0-3.5.8\modules\Editbox.lua:568: attempt to get length of field "history_lines" (a nil value)
Prat-3.0-3.5.8\modules\Editbox.lua:568: in function <Prat-3.0\modules\Editbox.lua:567>
<in C code>
Locals:
(*temporary) = <function> defined =[C]:-1
= <function> defined @Interface\FrameXML\AutoComplete.lua:298
= <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\Prat-3.0\modules\Editbox.lua:567
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Posted Jun 23, 2014I want to be able to change the colors of outgoing versus incoming whispers to make it easier to differentiate. I'm not finding this option in Prat. Is there something I'm missing or is there a different addon that could be used for it?