support /me

[dromer]

What do you want

On irc, mattermost and matrix you can use /me to say something in the 3rd person. In regular discord this also works. However in gord this is not available.

Why

Very typical usage on chat networks

Implementation hints

No idea, but good luck! :D

[yellowsink]

So I'm assuming by third person it means sorta like:

[Yellowsink] I am going to the shop

Would become:

[Yellowsink] Yellowsink is going to the shop

Is this what you had in mind?

[dromer]

usually it'll then say:
* Yellowsink is going to the shop
or something like that.

This is really part of the protocol, so probably a different kind of message to send to the server (but you mean for how to display this?)

[yellowsink]

I see. So you're imagining that in two gord clients communicating the username would be hidden? Or?

This kind of feels like the realm of a bot to be honest but idk your exact intention of how this'd work

[dromer]

Try sending a message starting with /me on the regular discord client.

[yellowsink]

oh it exists on regular discord? OK i will copy that behaviour then :)

[dromer]

Ah, I just tested this. On regular discord client it shows the text in italic. This maybe is harder to display in gord itself then.

However for regular discord users it now looks very weird, it would still be nice if this message is sent as it normally would so other users can display it properly.

(I'm probably pretty unique that I actually use this feature, but I sometimes get questions from people why I start sentences with /me because I'm so used to it haha)

[yellowsink]

hmm yes discord behaviour is just *your message* which isnt what you had in mind if i understand correctly

[dromer]

Well I'm fine with what discord normally does. As I would use this the same way on the normal discord client as well.

Thing is that the server supports these messages so it would be nice if gord also does (and I look like less of an idiot :D)

[yellowsink]

oh ok i see.

does gord not just display them as italic?

[dromer]

Ok what I see in gord is it displays this message:
/me test something
as:
_test something_

[yellowsink]

oh i see

[dromer]

So, gord displays these messages with _ around them. And when gord sends the message the regular client just sees /me test something

[yellowsink]

So theres two parts to this then:

1. Gord does not have the /me command
2. Gord does not display italics - i will split this off into a second issue. - Gord does not show bold and italic text formatting properly #24