Why not - if you're using binds - just have it send the tell to yourself?
Seems like the OP's looking for a way to keep track of recent buff targets in one clean list, so they can tell at a glance who has and hasn't been buffed. While tells can serve the purpose, that list can also be interrupted by, well, other tells. If that is the goal with this, then it would be very nice to have a separate chat tab that won't get cluttered with unrelated messages.
I like the idea. And while I'm no programmer so I could well be wrong, it seems to me a channel like this could be doable. It would basically be a clone of local but with a range so short the only person who can hear it is the speaker.
Other uses for it:
- It would be a useful "notes to self" kind of function. Ideally anything typed in the Echo channel would also get appended to a locally saved text file, but copy-paste would work fine too.
- You could create a tally count function by adding a couple number counter commands. Type in "/settally #" to reset the counter to where you want it to start. Then you have a bind or macro that increases (/tallyincrement or /tinc) or decreases (/tallydecrement or /tdec) that number by one, and displays it in the Echo channel (/showtally). This could be useful for testing purposes, for tracking defeats toward gladiator badges that don't display in the badge info, or just for counting occurrences of something.
- A "/stamp" command could be added that sends /servertime and /loc to the Echo channel, making it easier to track specific details when reporting bugs or whatever else you're doing.
Just set up a private global channel and don't invite anyone else. Or have a personal supergroup and use the /sg command.
I suggest a message channel similar to the "combat spam" message channels, except it displays only user-defined output, as passed through an /echo slash command. An example use would be:
/bind f "powexecname Fortitude$$echo My last Fortitude target was $target."
With this bind, when the user presses F, he uses Fortitude, and the following message outputs to the user's Echo channel:
"My last Fortitude target was Rigel Kent."