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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2013 Brian S. Stephan <bss@incorporeal.org>
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+# Convenience commands for appending/prepending text to the channel topic
+# or other buffer title.
+#
+# 2013-02-16 v0.1
+#     initial script, /topicpre
+
+try:
+    import weechat
+except:
+    print("This script must be run under WeeChat.")
+    print("Get WeeChat now at: http://www.weechat.org/")
+
+SCRIPT_NAME     = "topicutil"
+SCRIPT_AUTHOR   = "Brian S. Stephan <bss@incorporeal.org>"
+SCRIPT_VERSION  = "0.1"
+SCRIPT_LICENSE  = "GPL3"
+SCRIPT_DESC     = "Easily add text to the start of a channel topic"
+
+settings = {
+    'splitter': " | ",
+}
+
+def topic_prepend_cb(data, buffer, args):
+    """Prepend some text to the current buffer's topic."""
+
+    if args:
+        splitter = weechat.config_get_plugin('splitter')
+        topic = weechat.buffer_get_string(buffer, 'title')
+        if topic != "":
+            new_topic = "{0:s}{1:s}{2:s}".format(''.join(args), splitter,
+                                                 topic)
+        else:
+            new_topic = "{0:s}".format(' '.join(args))
+
+        weechat.command(buffer, '/topic {0:s}'.format(new_topic))
+        return weechat.WEECHAT_RC_OK
+
+if weechat.register(SCRIPT_NAME, SCRIPT_AUTHOR, SCRIPT_VERSION, SCRIPT_LICENSE,
+                    SCRIPT_DESC, "", ""):
+    # initialize default settings
+    for option, default in settings.items():
+        if weechat.config_get_plugin(option) == "":
+            weechat.config_set_plugin(option, default)
+
+    hook = weechat.hook_command("topicpre", topic_prepend_cb.__doc__,
+                                "<text>", "text: data to add to topic",
+                                '', 'topic_prepend_cb', '')