Here are a few “fun” things I’ve discovered you can (sometimes) do with Skype.
Disclaimer: Some of them seem to work intermittently, or only in certain versions of the software.
- Use the
s/old/new/regex for text substitution to replace a word or words in your previous message. This only seems to work up until the other chat participant “interacts” with the conversation in some way, though, and it’s not clear what counts as an interaction (typing something, definintely; clicking or scrolling in their Skype window, possibly). - On Windows, right-click and select Edit message on any message you’ve entered in the past hour.
- Hit the up arrow to go back and edit the last line/block you sent.
- Enter
/showplacesand hit return to see a list of places you’re currently logged in with this Skype account. This seems to work for me, showing me as logged in from my desktop and iPhone. - Enter
/remotelogoutto log out all sessions except the current one (where you’re typing the command). This particular command seems a bit flakey, and may be dependent on the platform(s), Skype version(s), and alignment of the stars. Worth trying if you’re stuck. Run/showplacesagain after to see whether the other sessions terminated or not.