iChat 4 adds IRC-style actions

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.

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*

Would be cool if these /me messages were also sent as Twitter tweets.

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.

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?

On Tiger, it appeared as "/me whatever" with a bubble. It displayed as shown in the screen shot only on Leopard.

Agreed-- how does this display on the Windows version of AIM? (aka everyone else I know) Or even on Adium for that matter...

Does it work if the person you're talking to isn't using iChat?

/me worked in Jabber chats in Tiger, not in AIM.

IF only leopard would let me stay on ichat long enough it keeps booting me off my wireless network ..son of beeeatch!