Behaviour of /me in Adium

[zaudragon]

than shoulden't it work like any other /whatever script?

NO!

Then you'll need "/me{does something}"

God, I'll hate that…

[wunderwood]

than shoulden't it work like any other /whatever script?

NO!

Then you'll need "/me{does something}"

God, I'll hate that…

No such thing as simple I guess.

[Adam Iser]

Elephant it is! *ruffle*

[TheSilverFox06]

I personally like the way /me acts now. It's the same command as is used to emote in IRC and bnet chatrooms (as well as other chatrooms, most likely). Example, if I type the following into IRC or bnet,

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/me jumps up and down

it would appear sort of like:

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- TheSilverFox06 jumps up and down -

The only problem with this is that there isn't that sort of display in instant messaging, and the next best thing is

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*jumps up and down*

Is it me, or is the /me command 2 extra keystrokes to get the same effect?

The asterix requires holding shift. It takes me a lot longer to hit shift-8 at the beginning and end of a message than it does to type slash-m-e-space consecutively at the beginning. This is especially because I haven't memorized the fact that the asterix is above the 8, so I have to look at my keyboard to find it.

[David Munch]

Elephant it is! *ruffle*

Dont know if its still there, but older versions of ICQ had a button with an elephant on it, and pressing it gave the reciever a big elephant-trompet-kindasound..

[thejokell]

But seriously, why not turn the "/me" thing into a plugin? That way those who want it can configure it (without adding to the prefs) and those who don't want it don't need to see it.

If all you see it as is two extra keystrokes, you're completely missing the point of the feature.

I might fix /me to the way it's supposed to behave just to ruffle some features. Is there some reason why you are so against it as to suggest implementing it as a separate plugin?

I'm against it just because I'd like adium to send out what I tell it to. Like I said earlier, the only time I ever use "/me" is when I'm making a joke to someone who knows what it means, but changing it to *blah* kinda ruins that. (And when I said "plugin" I meant "script")

In the end it's not a big deal at all, I've just stopped writing /me period. But if the "feature" is going to be rethought I figured I should throw in my 2 cents.

[TheSilverFox06]

If the messaging protocols supported emoting, it would be awesome

[Son of a Preacher Man]

How about if Adium threw up "Andy hits Sam over the head with an inflatable penguin", say, as a 'status message' on-screen? Then gave the choice in the prefs as to whether to send it as /me or **.

For extra awesomeness it could treat either /me or ** on incoming messages in the same way

[SadMac]

Yes, that's completely the idea. It's not just supposed to be a shortcut for sticking stars around the message. It's supposed to work exactly like it does on IRC, where your client shows it as the user performing an action. It should also work for incoming and outgoing messages.

With options to determine whether Adium behaves as it currently does or more sensibly no one can possibly complain too.

I've now versed myself vaguely with objective-c (what a thoroughly peculiar language) so will have a go at adding it myself in the next few days if a proper dev hasn't done it already.

[Michae1M]

Yes, that's completely the idea. It's not just supposed to be a shortcut for sticking stars around the message. It's supposed to work exactly like it does on IRC, where your client shows it as the user performing an action. It should also work for incoming and outgoing messages.

With options to determine whether Adium behaves as it currently does or more sensibly no one can possibly complain too.

I've now versed myself vaguely with objective-c (what a thoroughly peculiar language) so will have a go at adding it myself in the next few days if a proper dev hasn't done it already.

I think if I were to implement this, I would use a hidden pref.

0 == off
1 == place name at the front
2 == enclose message in *s

That way people can choose what they want.

I also wouldn't touch the outgoing messages, only modify the local display. And there's my $.02

[SadMac]

Yeah that would make sense to me. I'd leave in the option for the reformat outgoing messages tho. Some people seem to like it. Something like:

Display style =

• Unaltered
• with stars
• with username (preferably by doing more than just saying **Sadmac something)

reformat outoing =

• on
• off

would seem logical.

[Son of a Preacher Man]

Yeah, I'm one of the people who likes it like that. I know lots of people who have never used irc, and they get confused by /me

[johnnaked]

Hmm...

I'd like to see something along the lines of:

User1: Oh man. Blah blah blah.
User2: Really? Blah
*User1 smacks User2 around liberally with a trout.
User2: That was so unnecessary.

It'd be nice if it was broken up from the conversation (much like the way an away status update is shown) -- just to give it more of that ACTION! feel.

As far as outgoing/local reformatting... hmm... If you don't reformat outgoing messages, it isn't as fun when your friend just sees:

"xdemoncratx: *sprays on some Sucka Repellant*"

Mainly because I can actually type that.

I know Trillian has /me support; their messages get through like so:

"User1: * User1 takes off her overcoat."

Which... It just doesn't have that ACTION! flare as part of a dialogue.