Although it's an ugly way of doing it, I asume his parser will load the second value (which is same as the first anyhow) as the nick. I'll see if I have time to look into it tomorrow after school.
But yeah, I guess Ctrl+C works too. I don't even know why I suggested that. =p
And what do you have to say about the plugin system? I thought that was a little bit out of the question, considering the slackchat principles (barebones, it works, nothing more), but I thought I'd suggest it.
Also, STAR. People might not want SEXP. =p