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Inline die rolls

While I doubt that Roll20 wants to go down the road of MapTool with its macro insanity, I for one really would like to see inline die rolls. For example, in MapTool, one can write "/me attacks the goblin for [1d20+8]!" and it comes out as "DragoonWraith attacks the goblin for 16!" Importantly, the 16 would be highlighted, and display a tooltip on hover that shows the actual die rolled and how it came up (e.g. "1d20+8=8+8=16"). I realize that this would mean parsing entire statements; /inline and /inlineme might be appropriate so that not every single thing someone says has to go through a parser. It should also probably be a feature the GM can turn off; I've met a few GMs who really couldn't stand it.
I would love this. I really appreciate how much macros can help in a chat-based game (since I'd be coming from MapTool to this). It would also be nice if it parsed more than one die expression -- "/me attacks ([d20+8]) for [d8+2] on a hit" then spits out the whole thing.
It may not be inline, but what I was playing around with this morning (using the multiline macros) was something like this: open with an emote to describe the action, then attack and damage rolls. eg: /me Splug rams his dagger home /roll 1d20+10 vs AC /roll 1d4+9 Damage Which shows up in the chat like this: ( see attached screenshot )
Part of the goal is to avoid taking up that much space, though. I had missed that you could do multiline macros, though; that is pretty neat.