yep familiar with the shft/ rt-click, and the shift\ for another text channel tuned to VOX.
Have to tell ya though for a

I brought up war status on a field and it then dawned on me the info was on clipboard. My thought process was:
[1] How the heck did I manage to bring up my snapshot of my wish?

[2] Wait a minute, that was even on a different map...

[3] I had my wish granted

Is there a way (other than directly looking at the town) to tell if the town is white flag? If not, could it be added to this status screen? Or perhaps have the little yellow square turn white on the map?
When you select a field with war status it already switches to white, so that might be a conflict. I regularly use this to locate fields when I can't find em on a map.