Lack of interest [XF1] UserTagging breaking my custom BB codes

[Rasmus Vind]

For historical reasons I have a [highlight=language] tag. I think @digitalpoint made it back in the day. Possibly for vBulletin back then. I recently received a bug report where a user was highlighting code for a language full of @ symbols which did not have the desired effect. Random old users were @-mentioned instead.

Here is the code in XenForo_Model_UserTagging that does this:

    public function getTaggedUsersInMessage($message, &$newMessage, $replaceStyle = 'bb')
    {
        // always set this for early returns
        $newMessage = $message;
        $filteredMessage = $message;
        $this->_plainReplacements = null;

        if ($replaceStyle == 'bb')
        {
            $this->_plainReplacements = array();
            $filteredMessage = preg_replace_callback(
                '#\[(code|php|html|plain|media|url|img|user|quote)(=[^\]]*)?](.*)\[/\\1]#siU',
                array($this, '_plainReplaceHandler'),
                $filteredMessage
            );
        }
        else if ($replaceStyle == 'text')
        {
            $this->_plainReplacements = array();
            $filteredMessage = preg_replace_callback(
                '#(?<=^|\s|[\](,]|--|@)@\[(\d+):(\'|"|"|)(.*)\\2\]#iU',
                array($this, '_plainReplaceHandler'),
                $filteredMessage
            );
        }
// [...]

As you can see, it is hard-coded to a specific list of BB codes where user-tagging is not being done. I would very much like to be able to have this as a setting in my own custom BB code admin interface.