Today I’ve been curious if there were any more hidden chat commands besides the currently well known IRC-like Skype chat commands. So I decided to inspect the executable once more (I did it already once with only little success) and surprisingly I almost instantly found something completely new to me.
A quick search on the internet also turned up nothing comparable and quick try&error also revieled not much information for most of them so the following table mainly consists of questionmarks. I tried to come up with a description where the commands reveiled a bit, but since I found absolutely no additional information for those all the meaning is just guesswork from me.
Of course I’ll update this posting every time I find out something new or somebody gives me hints on this.
Update 2012-11-18 – Added infos on /fork from commenters, added bunch of new commands found in recent Skype 6 version
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|---|---|
| /dbghelp | Outputs a list of (debug?) commands but without description. |
| /showmembers | Lists all members of the chat with their currently assigned role. |
| /showstatus | Prints some infos about the current conversation. Conversation convoi id, Consumption horizon, History date and Message count. |
| /showactivemembers | ? |
| /showname | Displays the name of the original conversation. Required when querying the Skype database file. |
| /showchatforms | ? |
| /showpendingmessages | ? |
| /info | Displays the current and maximum number of chat participants. |
| /fm | ? |
| /verify | Shows some text about missing messages on my computer. Maybe checks the message-database for validity. |
| /showaccsel | ? |
| /showaccfocus | ? |
| /accselect | ? |
| /debug | ? |
| /debugmsg | ? |
| /golive [token] | (since Skype4?) Opens a management window in a group conversation which allows to handle conference calls. The sense of the (optional) token is not yet clear to me but seems to give you a link which you can share to others and allow them to join the conference. |
| /fork [skypename/s] | (since Skype5?) Duplicates the current group chat leaving out the contacts which are added to this command. |
| /fork [skypename/s] | (since Skype5?) Duplicates the current group chat leaving out the contacts which are added to this command. |
| /setupkey [key] [value] | ? Sets the “key” to a certain “value” or unsets it if no value given. Purpose currently unknown. |
| /setupkey! [key] | ? Deletes the “key”. Purpose currently unknown. |
| /showplaces | Displays a list of the currently online Skype instances using this Skype name (and have Skype version >=6 or recent mobile versions). |
| /remotelogout | Logs out all other currently online Skype instances which are using this Skype name (and have Skype version >=6 or recent mobile versions). |
| /rsql | ? sends this into the chat but does NOT show help like any other random /-command… |
| /set listeners [value] | ? probably another list of skype-ids which are only listeners/spectators in this chat. Changes also the output of /showmembers, but real effect still untested. |
| /get listeners | Shows the list of listeners set with previous command. |
| /ignore | ? |
Random/Unsorted additional findings
- The name of a chat (/showname) is composed of the initial creator of the group-conversation (who gets the role CREATOR and is indicated with ‘#’ in the chat-name) and a hash.
- If the group-chat evolved from a chat with another person, this person is also part of the name (with the role ADMIN and the ‘$’ sign as indicator in the chat-name).
- Consumption horizon (/showstatus) seems to be the time when the last message was received from any chat-member.
- Message count (/showstatus) is the number of messages displayed in the current window.