diff --git a/public/scripts/BulkEditOverlay.js b/public/scripts/BulkEditOverlay.js
index fccf12da3..26b9fc5b3 100644
--- a/public/scripts/BulkEditOverlay.js
+++ b/public/scripts/BulkEditOverlay.js
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ class BulkTagPopupHandler {
         printTagList($('#bulkTagList'), { tags: () => this.getMutualTags(), tagOptions: { removable: true } });
 
         // Tag input with resolvable list for the mutual tags to get redrawn, so that newly added tags get sorted correctly
-        createTagInput('#bulkTagInput', '#bulkTagList', { tags: () => this.getMutualTags(), tagOptions: { removable: true }});
+        createTagInput('#bulkTagInput', '#bulkTagList', { tags: () => this.getMutualTags(), tagOptions: { removable: true } });
 
         document.querySelector('#bulk_tag_popup_reset').addEventListener('click', this.resetTags.bind(this));
         document.querySelector('#bulk_tag_popup_remove_mutual').addEventListener('click', this.removeMutual.bind(this));
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ class BulkTagPopupHandler {
         // Find mutual tags for multiple characters
         const allTags = this.characterIds.map(cid => getTagsList(getTagKeyForEntity(cid)));
         const mutualTags = allTags.reduce((mutual, characterTags) =>
-            mutual.filter(tag => characterTags.some(cTag => cTag.id === tag.id))
+            mutual.filter(tag => characterTags.some(cTag => cTag.id === tag.id)),
         );
 
         this.currentMutualTags = mutualTags.sort(compareTagsForSort);
@@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ class BulkEditOverlay {
             this.container.removeEventListener('mouseup', cancelHold);
             this.container.removeEventListener('touchend', cancelHold);
         },
-            BulkEditOverlay.longPressDelay);
+        BulkEditOverlay.longPressDelay);
     };
 
     handleLongPressEnd = (event) => {
@@ -694,7 +694,7 @@ class BulkEditOverlay {
         } else {
             character.classList.remove(BulkEditOverlay.selectedClass);
             if (legacyBulkEditCheckbox) legacyBulkEditCheckbox.checked = false;
-            this.#selectedCharacters = this.#selectedCharacters.filter(item => String(characterId) !== item)
+            this.#selectedCharacters = this.#selectedCharacters.filter(item => String(characterId) !== item);
         }
 
         this.updateSelectedCount();
@@ -816,7 +816,7 @@ class BulkEditOverlay {
                     <span>Also delete the chat files</span>
                 </label>
             </div>`;
-    }
+    };
 
     /**
      * Request user input before concurrently handle deletion
diff --git a/public/scripts/RossAscends-mods.js b/public/scripts/RossAscends-mods.js
index b007a0d7e..a6bebf3e4 100644
--- a/public/scripts/RossAscends-mods.js
+++ b/public/scripts/RossAscends-mods.js
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ async function RA_autoloadchat() {
                 await selectCharacterById(String(active_character_id));
 
                 // Do a little tomfoolery to spoof the tag selector
-                const selectedCharElement = $(`#rm_print_characters_block .character_select[chid="${active_character_id}"]`)
+                const selectedCharElement = $(`#rm_print_characters_block .character_select[chid="${active_character_id}"]`);
                 applyTagsOnCharacterSelect.call(selectedCharElement);
             }
         }
diff --git a/public/scripts/chats.js b/public/scripts/chats.js
index 41e54fd48..0b37e9345 100644
--- a/public/scripts/chats.js
+++ b/public/scripts/chats.js
@@ -44,22 +44,29 @@ function isConvertible(type) {
 }
 
 /**
- * Mark message as hidden (system message).
- * @param {number} messageId Message ID
- * @param {JQuery<Element>} messageBlock Message UI element
- * @returns
+ * Mark a range of messages as hidden ("is_system") or not.
+ * @param {number} start Starting message ID
+ * @param {number} end Ending message ID (inclusive)
+ * @param {boolean} unhide If true, unhide the messages instead.
+ * @returns {Promise<void>}
  */
-export async function hideChatMessage(messageId, messageBlock) {
-    const chatId = getCurrentChatId();
+export async function hideChatMessageRange(start, end, unhide) {
+    if (!getCurrentChatId()) return;
 
-    if (!chatId || isNaN(messageId)) return;
+    if (isNaN(start)) return;
+    if (!end) end = start;
+    const hide = !unhide;
 
-    const message = chat[messageId];
+    for (let messageId = start; messageId <= end; messageId++) {
+        const message = chat[messageId];
+        if (!message) continue;
 
-    if (!message) return;
+        const messageBlock = $(`.mes[mesid="${messageId}"]`);
+        if (!messageBlock.length) continue;
 
-    message.is_system = true;
-    messageBlock.attr('is_system', String(true));
+        message.is_system = hide;
+        messageBlock.attr('is_system', String(hide));
+    }
 
     // Reload swipes. Useful when a last message is hidden.
     hideSwipeButtons();
@@ -69,28 +76,25 @@ export async function hideChatMessage(messageId, messageBlock) {
 }
 
 /**
- * Mark message as visible (non-system message).
+ * Mark message as hidden (system message).
+ * @deprecated Use hideChatMessageRange.
  * @param {number} messageId Message ID
- * @param {JQuery<Element>} messageBlock Message UI element
- * @returns
+ * @param {JQuery<Element>} _messageBlock Unused
+ * @returns {Promise<void>}
  */
-export async function unhideChatMessage(messageId, messageBlock) {
-    const chatId = getCurrentChatId();
+export async function hideChatMessage(messageId, _messageBlock) {
+    return hideChatMessageRange(messageId, messageId, false);
+}
 
-    if (!chatId || isNaN(messageId)) return;
-
-    const message = chat[messageId];
-
-    if (!message) return;
-
-    message.is_system = false;
-    messageBlock.attr('is_system', String(false));
-
-    // Reload swipes. Useful when a last message is hidden.
-    hideSwipeButtons();
-    showSwipeButtons();
-
-    saveChatDebounced();
+/**
+ * Mark message as visible (non-system message).
+ * @deprecated Use hideChatMessageRange.
+ * @param {number} messageId Message ID
+ * @param {JQuery<Element>} _messageBlock Unused
+ * @returns {Promise<void>}
+ */
+export async function unhideChatMessage(messageId, _messageBlock) {
+    return hideChatMessageRange(messageId, messageId, true);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -476,13 +480,13 @@ jQuery(function () {
     $(document).on('click', '.mes_hide', async function () {
         const messageBlock = $(this).closest('.mes');
         const messageId = Number(messageBlock.attr('mesid'));
-        await hideChatMessage(messageId, messageBlock);
+        await hideChatMessageRange(messageId, messageId, false);
     });
 
     $(document).on('click', '.mes_unhide', async function () {
         const messageBlock = $(this).closest('.mes');
         const messageId = Number(messageBlock.attr('mesid'));
-        await unhideChatMessage(messageId, messageBlock);
+        await hideChatMessageRange(messageId, messageId, true);
     });
 
     $(document).on('click', '.mes_file_delete', async function () {
diff --git a/public/scripts/logprobs.js b/public/scripts/logprobs.js
index b2e682286..e87adf487 100644
--- a/public/scripts/logprobs.js
+++ b/public/scripts/logprobs.js
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ function onAlternativeClicked(tokenLogprobs, alternative) {
     }
 
     if (getGeneratingApi() === 'openai') {
-        return callPopup(`<h3>Feature unavailable</h3><p>Due to API limitations, rerolling a token is not supported with OpenAI. Try switching to a different API.</p>`, 'text');
+        return callPopup('<h3>Feature unavailable</h3><p>Due to API limitations, rerolling a token is not supported with OpenAI. Try switching to a different API.</p>', 'text');
     }
 
     const { messageLogprobs, continueFrom } = getActiveMessageLogprobData();
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ function onPrefixClicked() {
 
 function checkGenerateReady() {
     if (is_send_press) {
-        toastr.warning(`Please wait for the current generation to complete.`);
+        toastr.warning('Please wait for the current generation to complete.');
         return false;
     }
     return true;
@@ -292,13 +292,13 @@ function onToggleLogprobsPanel() {
     } else {
         logprobsViewer.addClass('resizing');
         logprobsViewer.transition({
-                opacity: 0.0,
-                duration: animation_duration,
-            },
-            async function () {
-                await delay(50);
-                logprobsViewer.removeClass('resizing');
-            });
+            opacity: 0.0,
+            duration: animation_duration,
+        },
+        async function () {
+            await delay(50);
+            logprobsViewer.removeClass('resizing');
+        });
         setTimeout(function () {
             logprobsViewer.hide();
         }, animation_duration);
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ export function saveLogprobsForActiveMessage(logprobs, continueFrom) {
         messageLogprobs: logprobs,
         continueFrom,
         hash: getMessageHash(chat[msgId]),
-    }
+    };
 
     state.messageLogprobs.set(data.hash, data);
 
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ function convertTokenIdLogprobsToText(input) {
 
     // Flatten unique token IDs across all logprobs
     const tokenIds = Array.from(new Set(input.flatMap(logprobs =>
-        logprobs.topLogprobs.map(([token]) => token).concat(logprobs.token)
+        logprobs.topLogprobs.map(([token]) => token).concat(logprobs.token),
     )));
 
     // Submit token IDs to tokenizer to get token text, then build ID->text map
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ function convertTokenIdLogprobsToText(input) {
     input.forEach(logprobs => {
         logprobs.token = tokenIdText.get(logprobs.token);
         logprobs.topLogprobs = logprobs.topLogprobs.map(([token, logprob]) =>
-            [tokenIdText.get(token), logprob]
+            [tokenIdText.get(token), logprob],
         );
     });
 }
diff --git a/public/scripts/openai.js b/public/scripts/openai.js
index 8a71b89f0..7ce8c8c37 100644
--- a/public/scripts/openai.js
+++ b/public/scripts/openai.js
@@ -2264,7 +2264,7 @@ export class ChatCompletion {
 
             const shouldSquash = (message) => {
                 return !excludeList.includes(message.identifier) && message.role === 'system' && !message.name;
-            }
+            };
 
             if (shouldSquash(message)) {
                 if (lastMessage && shouldSquash(lastMessage)) {
diff --git a/public/scripts/slash-commands.js b/public/scripts/slash-commands.js
index 4aeff2b91..9e2d853d9 100644
--- a/public/scripts/slash-commands.js
+++ b/public/scripts/slash-commands.js
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ import {
     this_chid,
 } from '../script.js';
 import { getMessageTimeStamp } from './RossAscends-mods.js';
-import { hideChatMessage, unhideChatMessage } from './chats.js';
+import { hideChatMessageRange } from './chats.js';
 import { getContext, saveMetadataDebounced } from './extensions.js';
 import { getRegexedString, regex_placement } from './extensions/regex/engine.js';
 import { findGroupMemberId, groups, is_group_generating, openGroupById, resetSelectedGroup, saveGroupChat, selected_group } from './group-chats.js';
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ import { textgen_types, textgenerationwebui_settings } from './textgen-settings.
 import { decodeTextTokens, getFriendlyTokenizerName, getTextTokens, getTokenCount } from './tokenizers.js';
 import { delay, isFalseBoolean, isTrueBoolean, stringToRange, trimToEndSentence, trimToStartSentence, waitUntilCondition } from './utils.js';
 import { registerVariableCommands, resolveVariable } from './variables.js';
+import { background_settings } from './backgrounds.js';
 export {
     executeSlashCommands, getSlashCommandsHelp, registerSlashCommand,
 };
@@ -916,16 +917,7 @@ async function hideMessageCallback(_, arg) {
         return;
     }
 
-    for (let messageId = range.start; messageId <= range.end; messageId++) {
-        const messageBlock = $(`.mes[mesid="${messageId}"]`);
-
-        if (!messageBlock.length) {
-            console.warn(`WARN: No message found with ID ${messageId}`);
-            return;
-        }
-
-        await hideChatMessage(messageId, messageBlock);
-    }
+    await hideChatMessageRange(range.start, range.end, false);
 }
 
 async function unhideMessageCallback(_, arg) {
@@ -941,17 +933,7 @@ async function unhideMessageCallback(_, arg) {
         return '';
     }
 
-    for (let messageId = range.start; messageId <= range.end; messageId++) {
-        const messageBlock = $(`.mes[mesid="${messageId}"]`);
-
-        if (!messageBlock.length) {
-            console.warn(`WARN: No message found with ID ${messageId}`);
-            return '';
-        }
-
-        await unhideChatMessage(messageId, messageBlock);
-    }
-
+    await hideChatMessageRange(range.start, range.end, true);
     return '';
 }
 
@@ -1609,7 +1591,9 @@ $(document).on('click', '[data-displayHelp]', function (e) {
 
 function setBackgroundCallback(_, bg) {
     if (!bg) {
-        return;
+        // allow reporting of the background name if called without args
+        // for use in ST Scripts via pipe
+        return background_settings.name;
     }
 
     console.log('Set background to ' + bg);
diff --git a/src/endpoints/backends/text-completions.js b/src/endpoints/backends/text-completions.js
index 8e0ebba8d..22806cbf0 100644
--- a/src/endpoints/backends/text-completions.js
+++ b/src/endpoints/backends/text-completions.js
@@ -516,7 +516,7 @@ llamacpp.post('/slots', jsonParser, async function (request, response) {
         const baseUrl = trimV1(request.body.server_url);
 
         let fetchResponse;
-        if (request.body.action === "info") {
+        if (request.body.action === 'info') {
             fetchResponse = await fetch(`${baseUrl}/slots`, {
                 method: 'GET',
                 timeout: 0,
@@ -525,16 +525,16 @@ llamacpp.post('/slots', jsonParser, async function (request, response) {
             if (!/^\d+$/.test(request.body.id_slot)) {
                 return response.sendStatus(400);
             }
-            if (request.body.action !== "erase" && !request.body.filename) {
+            if (request.body.action !== 'erase' && !request.body.filename) {
                 return response.sendStatus(400);
             }
-    
+
             fetchResponse = await fetch(`${baseUrl}/slots/${request.body.id_slot}?action=${request.body.action}`, {
                 method: 'POST',
                 headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
                 timeout: 0,
                 body: JSON.stringify({
-                    filename: request.body.action !== "erase" ? `${request.body.filename}` : undefined,
+                    filename: request.body.action !== 'erase' ? `${request.body.filename}` : undefined,
                 }),
             });
         }