good on you for trying out new and less commonly used features of mIRC! did you know you can pass parameter's to $tip()'s in the usual way? that is to say: //noop $tip(name, title, text, , , , myalias parm1) will create a tip which, when double clicked, calls /myalias with $1 = parm1. you can use that to pass $nick to /p_reply without having to define %p_nick.