[thomasahle]

I haven't seen that convention used. Not that it's any bad.

Personally I use /s/old/new which also had the benefit of some platforms, like slack, automatically fixing the original message.

[StavrosK]

I've seen *correction used extensively among my non-technical peers, the sed syntax is more common across technical ones.

[randallsquared]

Wait, what? I've used that, but I don't think I've ever seen Slack fix the original!

[thomasahle]

Yeah, it's not really documented, so I was quite surprised when it first happened. They talk about it here though: https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/505178492431269888

[lordgrenville]

Slack has some surprising, hard to discover UI tricks. Another one I learned recently is you can make text into a hyperlink by copying a URL to your clipboard, highlighting the text in Slack, and pasting. https://twitter.com/ftrain/status/1240387882507997186

[mercer]

Ha, cool trick! Reminds me of the Trello trick where if you press the 'copy' keyboard shortcut while hovering over a card, it will copy a link to that specific card.

[mercer]

that's an awesome trick. Thanks!

[michaelcampbell]

Requires a leading /. Discord does this too, but without that requirement.

[Agentlien]

My friends and I have used this convention for IM apps since 2003. I haven't seen anyone do it for SMS, though.

[kohtatsu]

sed-style works in discord too without the leading /

  s/search/replace

Bothers me that it won't trim a trailing / tho.

FWIW it's usually faster just to press up (another shortcut to edit the last message) and word jump to fix.

Also FWIW I've always seen the asterisk apended.

“appended*”