Sending Messages

If your mouse is in the tactical or galactic window, press the 'm' key. Your cursor will change to a text-insertion I bar.

Alternatively you could move your mouse into the message-sending window or one of the message receiving windows.

Addressing

If you start your message in your team review window, it will automatically be addressed to your team.

Otherwise the next character you type determines where your message is sent.

A
sends to all.
T
sends to your team.
G
sends to GOD (usually logged as a bug report).
F,R,K,O
sends to Fed, Rom, Kli, or Ori team.
0,1..9,a,b..v
sends to the player with that number.

Composition

The rest of the characters you type are part of the message. There are a couple of special keys.
Return
sends the message.
Esc
aborts the message without sending.
Backspace, Delete
delete character.
^W
delete word.
^U, ^X
kill line.
Note: the control chacters don't work in current releases of the client. We're working on it... (Editor: really ? )