My suggestion has to do with the famsee command. Specifically, the "notinroom" option.

I'd like to see "famsee notinroom" only squelch things the familiar would see "automatically" (i.e. room descs as you walk around, things people say in the room, etc.) but NOT squelch things you specifically command it to look for.

Say I have famsee notinroom active, but want to scan around for people. I enter "fam scan all", but don't see anything since my familiar is in the same room as me. I have to switch to famsee all, do the scan, then switch back to famsee notinroom.