I have found myself on many occasions wishing to put a comma directly after my name in a /me statement. For instance, /me, in all his glory, pwns you. Obviously, /me, is not a recognized command. I tried to fix this with an alias: /me, /describe $chan $+ , $$1-

However, that didn't work. Anyone know how to do this?

Can't be done on the sender's end.

There's no way to do it. The nickname isn't part of the message/action itself, that's just the way mIRC and other clients display who sent the action. It's the same as the way that "<nickname>" isn't actually part of the message when you see "<nickname> some regular message here" - it's just mIRC's way of telling you who's saying what.

Right, hence why I always do /me 's blah.

/describe $+ 's or $+ anything becomes an invalid command.

Same thing why we can't make.

<Nick> Word

To be.

<Nick>Word

We could change it on the receiving side's end, but not on the sending side's end. But who cares to do that?

-Neal.

You can't get rid of the space. You can put a comma there, but it will have a space. The only way around that is to make a custom channel window for yourself that shows it without the space. Of course, that has no affect on what others see... and I personally don't think it's worth the effort just to remove a space.

As a note, if you put a comma, people understand even with a space.

* Riamus , something.

Speaking of which, when would you actually use a comma after your own nick in an action? I'm sure there's something out there, but I can't think of any. I can see using 's or whatever after your nick... but a comma? Sure, you'd use a comma after someone else's nick, but your own? Again, I'm probably just not thinking of the right scenarios.

Well, better use the easy way out then...

/me pwns you, in all his glory :P

Thanks for all the feedback, guys.

/me's not listening to you all.


How many times ive written that by mistake.