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IRC fans rejoice. Leopard's iChat 4 introduces IRC-style /me actions. Just enter /me followed by an action and iChat will properly attribute that action to you in the chat window. The action appears outside the "bubbles" in a central text. iChat does not yet support /describe but /me is a great place to start and shows Apple's ever expanding attention to non-AIM standards and capabilities.
/me approves.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Shunnabunich said 12:31PM on 11-05-2007
Really? Damn, that's pretty awesome. Now I REALLY wish I could afford a copy of Leopard, like right now.
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n[ate]vw said 12:39PM on 11-05-2007
Pretty sure /me worked in Tiger, at least in AIM/.Mac chats.
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link.dupont said 12:44PM on 11-05-2007
Yea, I remember using /me in iChat 3 in Tiger too.
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king said 3:15PM on 11-05-2007
IF only leopard would let me stay on ichat long enough it keeps booting me off my wireless network ..son of beeeatch!
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Steve said 12:59PM on 11-05-2007
/me worked in Jabber chats in Tiger, not in AIM.
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Jeremy said 1:04PM on 11-05-2007
Does it work if the person you're talking to isn't using iChat?
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Eric said 2:15PM on 11-05-2007
Agreed-- how does this display on the Windows version of AIM? (aka everyone else I know) Or even on Adium for that matter...
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Erica Sadun said 2:15PM on 11-05-2007
On Tiger, it appeared as "/me whatever" with a bubble. It displayed as shown in the screen shot only on Leopard.
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Jeff Harrell said 3:26PM on 11-05-2007
I'm not entirely sure why this is useful. Is the idea that if I happen to type like a caveman — "Me hits monkey on head, drags back to cave, eats steaming flesh" — iChat will reformat my ramblings in proper grammatical English?
Isn't it easier just to, you know, type in English in the first place?
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ComanDante said 5:26PM on 11-05-2007
Jeff - it's more to make it like a story with some narration. It's just another way to play around with interacting. Instead of saying ::wink wink:: you can just "/me said that with a wink" which is then displayed "John said that with a wink" outside of the bubbles.
It's fine if you don't like it. Some of us find it fun and use it as a way to change up chats.
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Andrew said 7:45PM on 11-05-2007
Would be cool if these /me messages were also sent as Twitter tweets.
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Danny said 7:42PM on 11-05-2007
This worked in Tiger, and has somewhat worked on Adium for quite a while. In Adium, if you type '/me is crying with laughter' it will send this message: *is crying with laughter*
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tom said 11:39PM on 11-05-2007
When I use /me in iChat 4, it shows up correctly in my chat window but outputs the "/me" on an iChat 3 client on the other end.
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