Starting a line with a slash in xchat (Shallow Thoughts)

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Mon, 14 Feb 2011

Starting a line with a slash in xchat

As most veteran IRC users know, IRC commands generally start with a slash at the beginning of a line. For instance, you say
/join #channel
to join a new channel, or
/me waves to everyone
to send "*akk waves to everyone" to the channel.

Great, but what if I want to start a line with a slash?

On some IRC clients, you can type two slashes, e.g.

/ /me tries
but on xchat that doesn't work -- it just complains "unknown command".

On xchat, what you need is /say:

/say /me succeeds!

Silly little tip, but I know I'll forget it if I don't record it ... and I bet I'm not the only xchat user wondering how to do this.

Update: it turns out that sometimes in xchat you can use a double slash with no spaces:
//me tries
which is the obvious thing to try, but it hasn't always worked reliably for me. Try it ... but you can fall back on /say if // doesn't work.

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