Action Messages

"Action Messages" are a bit of an extension to the CyanChat protocol. It's not actually supported on the CC server, but several home-made CC clients support this.

IRC-Style /me Actions

Typing in "/me <action>" in the message space is the standard way of sending an action message. To all clients who support the feature, your message should appear special on their client. To those which don't support the feature, they'll simply see "/me <action>" from you.

Automatic Actions

There is an option on the Miscellaneous tab of the Preferences window which will automatically display certain messages in the "action" format.

When enabled, a message that begins and ends with asterisks (*) will automatically be displayed as action messages.

Typo Messages

Typo messages are similar to action messages in that they display in a special color. When a message is received that begins with a * but doesn't end with one, the message is displayed normally, but the text is displayed in the "action color"