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Spaceless /me command

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Edited 1758226144
Quinn
Pro
Sheet Author
This may sound a little silly, but it's one of my top pipe dream features. Consider the following three lines in a tabletop scene: Garg glares in shock at the dragon. Garg's eyes go wide in shock as he sees the dragon. Garg, eyes wide with shock, backs away from the dragon. The first is easy for Garg'sp layer to do: "/me glares in shock at the dragon". The other two are impossible. The best you can do is just doing it as non-/me text, which has an awkward duplication of the character name in the header. What I'm proposing is some new command that I'll call /mex, which does the same thing as /me but without the space between the name and the text. Examples: PLAYER TYPES: "/me glares in shock at the dragon" OUTPUT: Garg glares in shock at the dragon. PLAYER TYPES: "/mex 's eyes go wide in shock as he sees the dragon." OUTPUT: Garg's eyes go wide in shock as he sees the dragon. PLAYER TYPES: "/mex , eyes wide in shock, backs away from the dragon." OUTPUT: Garg, eyes wide in shock, backs away from the dragon.
1758238433
Gold
Forum Champion
That's... interesting.  I just tested it, and yes I see the space. For a workaround in the meantime, I would just do whichever of those you want and ignore the tiny extra space. It is gramatically incorrect to have the space, so if that bothers you, I understand the desire for this Suggestion.  Examples: /me 's eyes go wide in shock as he sees the dragon. /me , eyes wide with shock, backs away from the dragon. The space is barely noticable (to me). My eyes naturally read right past the space without any bother. 
1758294686
Quinn
Pro
Sheet Author
Yeah, I do end up doing that as a workaround. The space does bother me, though, so it would be nice to have a way to remove it. At least as the GM, you can use the /emas command to sort of fix this.