I just discovered this neat feature that has been added to Skype (I’m running v3.5.0.202). You can now edit your previous chat messages. Simply hit the up arrow, edit away and hit enter. Your previous message will be updated in the chat history. Or you can right click the message and select edit from a menu. This is a very simple feature addition, but really valuable for people like me that mistype/misspell a high percentage of words.
This seems counter to the natural flow of a conversation, simply because people are accustomed to them moving linearly in one direction, at least when conducted in real time.
Furthermore one would have to be quite pedantic about spelling and grammatical errors to make extensive use of this feature.
Just my two cents worth
By: Matt Milosavljevic on September 25, 2007
at 1:17 pm
It lonly works for the first couple of ours after you sent the chat message.
If you wait longer, even if the other person did not get online and the message wasn’t delivered, you will NOT be able to edit or delete it.
By: axel on April 8, 2008
at 2:03 pm