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Re:No Hello (2013) by SethTro on Friday August 21, 2020 @07:43PM (#24240083)
Google has a whole list of these (ActionableIM, OnlyHello, ContextPlz); I'm into FastHello

1. Open the chat window, and type your question with no "hello". Do not press enter. 2. Instead, press Ctrl-A and then Ctrl-X to cut your question out of the chat window and into your clipboard. 3. type and send "hello" 4. Pause 2-5 seconds 5. Ctrl-P and enter to send your full question.

Re:No Hello (2013) by jay_kyburz on Friday August 21, 2020 @07:49PM (#24240125)
"Hello" <Control Enter> Type your question. Your welcome.
Re:No Hello (2013) by aaron695 on Friday August 21, 2020 @08:20PM (#24240381)
You can thank email for people being to scared to do this.
Re:No Hello (2013) by Kootle on Friday August 21, 2020 @07:49PM (#24240124)
Why would I print my chat window
Re:No Hello (2013) by apazzolini on Friday August 21, 2020 @08:03PM (#24240248)
I laughed.
Re:No Hello (2013) by weikju on Friday August 21, 2020 @07:46PM (#24240099)
Something simpler for me: most chat clients have a key combo to make newlines when pressing enter, like shift-enter or opt/alt-enter.

Type hello, shift-enter-shift-enter, type your message, enter.

Re:No Hello (2013) by romanows on Friday August 21, 2020 @07:50PM (#24240134)
Why so many steps when you could just ask the question?
Re:No Hello (2013) by molsongolden on Friday August 21, 2020 @08:08PM (#24240289)
I really wanted step 3 to be "paste your question into the knowledge base search input"