How to edit posts in HipChat?

[Dwight Spearman]

How do I edit posts in HipChat without going to the web and going to history?  Can I not do it in the desktop app on the fly?

[Vladimir Yakimov _Botron_]

You can edit you last message within one minute of sending it.

Use command:

s/<original text>/<edited text>

eg. message sent is:

I've make a mistake

s/make/made

outcome: I've made a mistake

Or you can delete:

s/message text/

[danny]

There isn't a one minute limitation anymore. But you can only edit your last sent message.

[Vladimir Yakimov _Botron_]

 @Daniel Navarro good to know that. Indeed no limit anymore, just tested it:) thanks

[danny]

Cool, glad that helped (thumbsup)

Also, Dwight or others may be interested in this page that shows all the keyboard shortcuts and slash commands. https://confluence.atlassian.com/hipchat/keyboard-shortcuts-and-slash-commands-749385232.html

[Nemanja Cosovic]

Why not just use the same logic Skype did?

Simple arrow up on keyboard and you can edit entire last message. Its very natural and intuitive way of editing messages.

Also, provide a timestamp with "Edited on: " so that the chat room would be aware of this.

[Mark Schultheiss]

Or just use Slack which has way better editing?

[Eric Roller]

wow, so hipchat thinks everyone likes using sed? slack is killing it

[Alexander Zhak]

How to edit a message which contains slash characters? For example, I tried to edit TEXT and misspelled command: /s/TEXT/ ... What should I type to remove text "/s/TEXT/"?