Emote Splitter removes the character limit from your chatbox and lets you paste or type as much text as you want. It's designed for roleplayers who like to type a lot, but is totally useful for other everyday use if you just want to send a long message. Normally you can only send chat messages up to 255 characters long. Any message that exceeds this limit is split up into multiple pieces and sent one by one.
Features
Message Verification. Unlike traditional chat-splitting addons, Emote Splitter is MUCH more robust. It queues messages one at a time and verifies that all are sent, so that you don't lose any to the server's chat throttler. This is especially designed for roleplayers who may post a lot of text in /say and /em. Go ahead and paste the whole Bee Movie script and watch it work (but you will likely get a silence penalty).
Battle.net support. Emote Splitter supports Battle.net whispers fully, and even corrects an error that may cause messages appear out-of-order. Simply having Emote Splitter installed will cause any Battle.net whisper addons to function properly in regard to message ordering.
Communities support. Extends the community window's chatbox too.
Message split marks. Ability to automatically add marks where your message was split.
Undo / Emote Saving. Adds Ctrl-Z for easy undo or saving your text if you delete them accidentally. This also saves the text you're typing if your internet poops out!
Lightweight. Near-zero impact on your game's performance.
Additional Information
This addon is compatible with most other addons. If you run into any problems, please create an issue. I usually fix serious problems within 24 hours.
If you're RPing and see someone's emote get cut off by the server, recommend Emote Splitter™!
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Can you please, please, PLEASE port this to classic? It is EXTREMELY overdue there, especially for multipost RPers like me and so many I know!!
Where can I get one that works with the latest patch? It doesn't seem to be working for me.
Latest patch messed with Emote Splitter's functionality. Unfortunately this is not a trivial fix unless they revert their changes. I'll be looking into solutions. For now you should avoid posting a lot in /say or /yell. /emote works fine.
In reply to tammymg:
Any news on that front? I'm really hoping there's some clever workaround because this and Speakinspell are totally broken and I've never wanted to quit WoW so badly in my life.
This seems bugged after the new update. Often i get the message
Interface action failed because of an Addon
<Chat Failed!>
And then I have to try and remember what I wrote and build on the emote quickly.
In reply to CeciilMistwalker:
best way to remedy that is to alt+up and dissect yuor post from there. it's been happening to me and my friends, too.
This works with Classic as-is, just have to download it and install it manually.
Please let me know when you release a Classic Version of this! I know sometime in the next couple weeks I plan on Role Playing on my down times. I love it on retail, it's very useful.
Curious if there is a Classic version?
Will there be a version for 1.12.1 when Classic gets released?
In reply to Gildrick:
HELL yeah
Hello,
first of all thank you for that addon, but i found an issues that belongs larger Rolepaying Groups. Can you maybe add Party and Raid Chat to it? It would help splitting the emotes also correctly because the sayed words are highlighted as emote, which is not correct.
Hello,
first of all thank you for that addon, but i found an issues that belongs larger Rolepaying Groups. Can you maybe add Party and Raid Chat to it? It would help splitting the emotes also correctly because the sayed words are highlighted as emote, which is not correct.
I'm not sure to which of you I should reach out, but Misspelled seems to have been abandoned (I think, still works fine though) so I'm trying here with you first.
What happens is that when I use Battlenet chat, not with say, whispers, emotes, or whatever, just between battlenet friends, once I reach the chat limit the next thing I type disappears. Not the whole phrase I had typed, just my next word. If I'm not paying attention I can keep writting for a while and the words just keep on deleting themselves. If i just press enter everything I had typed up to the cutoff point will send correctly but the words lost to the void are gone.
I've narrowed it down to Misspelled causing this.
I've tried deleting the cache, deleting the both addons and the saved variables and re-downloading, but this persists.
Edit: Odd behaviors. Numbers do not trigger this, only letters. https://imgur.com/a/jOeqriG
In reply to zuuds:
I investigated this issue some months ago, and there's an issue about it here: https://wow.curseforge.com/projects/emote-splitter/issues/1
It includes a patch for Misspelled that you can use, until the author comes around to apply it and upload a fix themselves. Basically the problem is that the chatbox only allows so many color codes, so if you type too many misspelled words (which are color coded) any more will be cut off. Normally this isn't an issue so long as you aren't typing too many words that are in the dictionary (if you use a handful that aren't, adding them to the dictionary manually can help solve the problem too).
In reply to tammymg:
Suggestion for a feature:
"Emote Protection": With Addons like Total RP 3 (and possibly others) it's possible to write emotes in party or guild chat, by using * or ** around them.
as an example. Those addons then color the text between the *s in the emote color.
However if an emote is then split by Emote Splitter, it obviously won't be recognized anymore as such, since the opening and the closing * are in two different messages.
So would it be possible to check if there is an emote that has been started but not closed yet, and if so, close it at the end of the split message and reopen it at the start of the next?
When linking several items in party chat (I don't recall if it works the same way in a whisper), I can still only link 4-6 items at a time without having to press enter (have the message send) and start another line of item links.
My gf and I run a lot of raids and dungeons together, and find it easiest to link items in chat to each other to find out if the other person needs any of the items. But not being able to link more items at a time is frustrating.
Is this a limitation you can't bypass or is there a fix/change you could implement? (If you'd be willing to do so!)
In reply to Ambiguouskid:
Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure that's some internal limitation that's not easy to get around without a bunch of messy work.