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Skype's Crazy Regex Easter Egg

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Re: Skype's Crazy Regex Easter Egg

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Post by chapel »

s0urceror wrote: post #3

I've always wanted to implement this in my IRC client, but been too lazy, it's nice to see it implemented in some form of chat client, although it's a bit lacking. Is the change visible for all participants?

The main theme for a Mac based IRC client has this feature built in. Though it only reflects for people that have that client/theme. If you are wondering the client, it is Linkinus.

I believe the change is visible in Skype for all participants.

Re: Skype's Crazy Regex Easter Egg

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Post by derefr »

borism wrote: post #6
gmac wrote: post #2

I was sceptical about this, but it works. I also noticed recently that, in a somewhat shell-like way, you can press the up arrow to edit your previous message at will (but perhaps this is common knowledge).

yup, just some toying around by our mac devs :)

As a suggestion, you could search the line for the substring with the least Levenshtein distance from the correction, to use as the text to replace—and thus also support the "*word" correction syntax I see quite more often from non-technical friends. :)

Re: Skype's Crazy Regex Easter Egg

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Post by statictype »

borism wrote: post #6
gmac wrote: post #2

I was sceptical about this, but it works. I also noticed recently that, in a somewhat shell-like way, you can press the up arrow to edit your previous message at will (but perhaps this is common knowledge).

yup, just some toying around by our mac devs :)

And apparently your Windows devs as well...

Re: Skype's Crazy Regex Easter Egg

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Post by statictype »

mziulu wrote: post #10
kilian wrote: post #8

Doesn't work in the linux version :( Skype, can we have an update with new functionality? (the interface is fine!)

Mmh, I noticed it works with my Skype client, on Fedora, while it doesn't work wth my buddy's client, on Windows.

Works on Windows. At least it did a few months ago when I first discovered it.
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