Keyboard shortcut to change recipient in chat

Syldras · November 13

I know it's a strange question, but is there some keyboard shortcut that changes the recipient of a chat message? If so, what is it, is it changeable, and where can I find it in the settings?

Since a few weeks, I have a problem that never to me occurred before in all those years I've been playing ESO: Chat whispers sometimes end up sent to the wrong person.

The first time, I thought I just misclicked in the friends list (which I use to start a whisper), because I have the list sorted by login time, so the order of names might have changed just when I clicked because another person just logged in at that moment. So I didn't think much about it.

But now it happened a second time, and I was in the middle of a "private" chat with a friend when it happened. It had been going on for a longer time, and when I didn't get a reply for a while, I looked at my last message again and realized the whisper had been sent not to that friend but to someone else from my friends list who had logged in meanwhile. I am 100% sure I have not clicked their name in the chat box, let alone right-clicked and selected "whisper".

So I've been wondering how this is possible? Must be a keyboard shortcut of some kind? Or maybe a bug related to an add-on that is not up to date since the last ESO update?

I mean, it's not a super horrible thing. I don't send any sensitive information through chat anyway. It's mostly just some discussion about the game or some everyday chatter. But still, I'd prefer not to annoy random people with messages about people they don't know and things that don't interest them, most often in a language they don't even know

katanagirl1 · November 14

The only time this happens to me is when I select a player from the zone chat window and someone else types something in the chat window before I complete the message. It causes the pointer to get bumped down and send the message to the wrong player.

MJallday · November 14

Syldras wrote: »

I know it's a strange question, but is there some keyboard shortcut that changes the recipient of a chat message? If so, what is it, is it changeable, and where can I find it in the settings?

Since a few weeks, I have a problem that never to me occurred before in all those years I've been playing ESO: Chat whispers sometimes end up sent to the wrong person.

The first time, I thought I just misclicked in the friends list (which I use to start a whisper), because I have the list sorted by login time, so the order of names might have changed just when I clicked because another person just logged in at that moment. So I didn't think much about it.

But now it happened a second time, and I was in the middle of a "private" chat with a friend when it happened. It had been going on for a longer time, and when I didn't get a reply for a while, I looked at my last message again and realized the whisper had been sent not to that friend but to someone else from my friends list who had logged in meanwhile. I am 100% sure I have not clicked their name in the chat box, let alone right-clicked and selected "whisper".

So I've been wondering how this is possible? Must be a keyboard shortcut of some kind? Or maybe a bug related to an add-on that is not up to date since the last ESO update?

I mean, it's not a super horrible thing. I don't send any sensitive information through chat anyway. It's mostly just some discussion about the game or some everyday chatter. But still, I'd prefer not to annoy random people with messages about people they don't know and things that don't interest them, most often in a language they don't even know

not sure if this helps but if you use your keyboard and do
/g1
/g2
/g3
/g4
/g5

that switches the chat context to whichever guild you want (1-5)

similarly

/g - moves you to group chat
/s - is say (local area)
/z - is zone (zone chat)
/y - is yell (local area)

its useful on console anyway

Gabriel_H · November 14

"'/w @AccounName " Highlight & Ctrl+C.
Ctrl+V before you start typing.
Best I can offer.

DenverRalphy · November 14

/r - whisper (or reply) to the last person who whispered you.

Dragonnord · November 14

Syldras wrote: »

I know it's a strange question, but is there some keyboard shortcut that changes the recipient of a chat message? If so, what is it, is it changeable, and where can I find it in the settings?

Since a few weeks, I have a problem that never to me occurred before in all those years I've been playing ESO: Chat whispers sometimes end up sent to the wrong person.

The first time, I thought I just misclicked in the friends list (which I use to start a whisper), because I have the list sorted by login time, so the order of names might have changed just when I clicked because another person just logged in at that moment. So I didn't think much about it.

But now it happened a second time, and I was in the middle of a "private" chat with a friend when it happened. It had been going on for a longer time, and when I didn't get a reply for a while, I looked at my last message again and realized the whisper had been sent not to that friend but to someone else from my friends list who had logged in meanwhile. I am 100% sure I have not clicked their name in the chat box, let alone right-clicked and selected "whisper".

So I've been wondering how this is possible? Must be a keyboard shortcut of some kind? Or maybe a bug related to an add-on that is not up to date since the last ESO update?

I mean, it's not a super horrible thing. I don't send any sensitive information through chat anyway. It's mostly just some discussion about the game or some everyday chatter. But still, I'd prefer not to annoy random people with messages about people they don't know and things that don't interest them, most often in a language they don't even know

That same situation happened to me until I figured out it was rchat addon that changes the recipient using the keyboard arrows (or WASD).

Maybe you are using rChat addon then, or pChat since it also does the same thing.

Btw, you can disable that from the addon settings.

Syldras · November 14

Dragonnord wrote: »

That same situation happened to me until I figured out it was rchat addon that changes the recipient using the keyboard arrows (or WASD).
Maybe you are using rChat addon then, or pChat since it also does the same thing.
Btw, you can disable that from the addon settings.

I don't use any chat add ons, but I have some mod (not sure which one) that causes an UI error at times, and I also use this one, which automatically plays different mementos and emotes when idle - not sure how that might interfere with the chat box somehow:
https://www.esoui.com/downloads/info2695-PersonalityDesigner.html

SkaraMinoc · November 14

Did you send an ERP to the wrong player? 🤣

Syldras · November 14

SkaraMinoc wrote: »

Did you send an ERP to the wrong player? 🤣

I wish it would have been that interesting

But the first message was just a random greeting, and the second was about men's grooming products. And honestly, I'm not sure if random people are interested in me writing about scented shaving soap.

Gabriel_H · November 14

Syldras wrote: »

Dragonnord wrote: »

That same situation happened to me until I figured out it was rchat addon that changes the recipient using the keyboard arrows (or WASD).
Maybe you are using rChat addon then, or pChat since it also does the same thing.
Btw, you can disable that from the addon settings.

I don't use any chat add ons, but I have some mod (not sure which one) that causes an UI error at times, and I also use this one, which automatically plays different mementos and emotes when idle - not sure how that might interfere with the chat box somehow:
https://www.esoui.com/downloads/info2695-PersonalityDesigner.html

It shouldn't, as it appears to play emotes through ZOS' play emote function rather than outputting a slash command in the chatbox.

Syldras · November 14

Gabriel_H wrote: »

It shouldn't, as it appears to play emotes through ZOS' play emote function rather than outputting a slash command in the chatbox.

I don't know. What I can say is that it can also plays emotes from the base game that are not visible in the collection menu (the standard emotes like "sit" or "drink", as well as the animations that our character is doing visibly for other players when we look at a map, the inventory or even the crown store).