How to find out the reply-to-name?

[sevenlist]

Hello everybody!

How can I find out the name of the player I reply to for usage in my macro? In this case, I want to left-klick a player in the chat to reply to him (I cannot press "r" because it's a player I haven't responded so far and I will not target him).

[sylvanaar]

How do you reply to someone that has never messaged you?

[sevenlist]

You are right: It is not a reply but a whisper. So I meant following: I left-click on a player's name in the chat window to whisper to him. The chat window lets me enter a message. Instead of typing the message myself, I want to insert a personalized message with a macro, *containing the name of the player I left-clicked*. Is that possible with a macro or only with an addon? If I need to develop an addon, how do I get that player's name?

E.g.:
/run SendChatMessage("Hi <player's name>!", "WHISPER", nil, <player's name>);

[p3lim]

/run SendChatMessage("Hi %t!", "WHISPER", nil, UnitName('target'));

[Nibelheim]

You could use ChatFrame1EditBox:GetAttribute("tellTarget"), this will send a message to the current/last Whisper target.

/run SendChatMessage("My message here", "WHISPER", nil, ChatFrame1EditBox:GetAttribute("tellTarget"));

[sevenlist]

Thank you very much for your answers!

@Nibelheim: Yippie, this was the answer I was looking for! Thanks for answering such a basic question .

@p3lim: As I wrote in my first post, I do not target the player .

[Vlad]

Suggestion, instead of:
ChatFrame1EditBox:GetAttribute("tellTarget")
You can also use:
ChatEdit_GetLastToldTarget()
^.^

[sevenlist]

Vladinator, thank you for the hint. Nomen est omen, so the function works only for the last told target.

ChatFrame1EditBox:GetAttribute("tellTarget") works also for a new whisper target which is what I need .

[sevenlist]

Nibelheim, how did you find out the name of the according attribute (tellTarget)? I was not able to find it in the API documentation. (I am taking my first steps in WoW-LUA-programming.)

[SDPhantom]

It's managed by code in ChatFrame.lua