emoting (Re: [JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines)

[Thomas Parslow (PatRat)]

> is there anyway currently for clients to actually send traditional
> 'emotes'? perhaps i have not run across a client that supports it or
> something simular. i can see this very lacking with irc<->jabber if so.

Some clients (Gabber, JabberIM and <plug>Marvin</plug>) support IRC
style "/me" emotes as in:

/me does some emoting

which would be shown in a different color as:

* tom does some emoting


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> SysAdmin, Antitribu|    Platforms: Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0, or better",
>                    |        so clearly Linux was a supported platform.


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