Chat default off¶

Everything about the chat window: copying a line, timestamps, repeats, history, animation, size, colors, highlights and local word filters. It changes how chat looks on your screen and never touches what you send.

Identifier

chat

Tab

SERVER

Default

Off. Right click to copy, Complete names with Tab, Chat background opacity, Background width and Input line background work even while the module is off.

HUD element

Yes, the chat window. It starts where the game puts it.

Sends anything

No. Tab completion only uses the request the game already sends when you press Tab.

What it does¶

• Copy. Right click a chat line to put its text on the clipboard; hold the copy key (Shift by default) to copy it with its formatting written as & codes. A left click still does what it always does. On a Mac, Control and a left click copies too, and a link or command in the line is not clicked at the same time. You are told the copy worked with a flash and a note; nothing is ever written into chat. Copying works even while the rest of the module is off.
• Timestamps. Your computer's local time in front of every new line, as HH:mm or HH:mm:ss, optionally as a 12 hour clock.
• Repeated messages. With Stack repeats on, a message that arrives again is drawn once with a count after it. A line with a link, a command or hover text in it, such as a party invite, is never stacked, so it stays clickable.
• History. The window can keep more than the game's 100 lines, and keeps its contents when you leave a world or move to another server. Clear empties your window at once, locally.
• Animation. New lines slide in and scrolling glides. Both follow Animations in General.
• Look. Background (always, while typing, or never), its opacity, color and width, text shadow, text opacity, one color for every line, line spacing. On 1.7.10 the closed chat has no box by default. A background color or width of your own now shows there too. Opacity alone does not bring the box back.
• Size. Chat width and the two heights are the game's own chat settings, so a change here shows in the game's options too and the other way round. To move the window, or make all of it larger or smaller, drag or scroll over the Chat box while the Right Shift menu is open.
• Highlight. Your own name and words you list can be picked out in a color, optionally bold, with a short sound when your name appears (at most once every two seconds).
• Filters. Lines holding words you list are not shown to you at all. Ignore chat clearing turns the run of empty lines servers send to wipe chat into one.
• Keys. A peek key shows the window as if it were open, without opening it. Reopening chat can bring back text you had not sent yet.

The highlight words and filter words stay on your computer and are never written into a settings export.

Tab completion¶

Complete names with Tab is on by default and works on its own, whether the rest of the module is on or off. When you press Tab after a command, at any argument, and the server answers with nothing of its own, Xol fills in a player's name from the list on your TAB screen. Press Tab again to step through the names that fit. Whatever the server does answer is always used instead. A name can only be filled in when it is already in the player list on your screen, so a player the server hides from you stays hidden.

Settings¶

The chat window also has the visibility rows every HUD element has, but not the shared appearance rows: the look settings above take their place.

What it never does¶

It never sends anything, never changes a message you send, and only writes to the clipboard when you right click a line (or Control click it on a Mac). The filters and highlights change only what your own window shows.

Multiplayer¶

The client's note says: display only. It changes how chat is drawn on your screen, what your own window keeps and what it hides from you; it never sends anything, never touches messages you send, and only writes to the clipboard when you click a line. Tab completion is a convenience on top of the game's own: the only thing that goes to the server is the request the game already sends when you press Tab, the server's own answer always wins, and a name can only be filled in when it is already in the player list on your screen.

See Multiplayer and fair play for how every module is reviewed.