Chatten
Overview
Chat
You can create a chat with someone using the Plus icon > New direct message. There you can find a person using the Matrix ID (e.g.: @name:uni-wuppertal.de) or the name (first name last name). Alternatively, you can also enter an email address, then a chat invitation will be sent to this person (you can only chat if this person has a Matrix account).
The following is good to know:
- To make a line break on the PC, press Shift + Enter (and Enter sends the message).
- Files (including images) can be sent up to a size of 25MB.
- Emojis can be reached by starting with a colon “:” and typing at least two more letters. If you don’t know the emoji name you want by, you can scroll through many emojis by clicking on the smiley symbol on the right in the input line.
- There is a search to find text in chat, but encrypted messages cannot be searched via the web application. However, you can search via the desktop client. This is because Element has no access to the messages (the encryption means that no one can read the messages, not even Element).
- Der Chat-Verlauf (von Direktnachrichten und Räumen) kann exportiert werden (HTML, Klartext, JSON).
Markdown
Messages can also be formatted in Matrix Element using text formatted in the markup language MarkDown. Here are some examples:
| Result | to type |
|---|---|
| Fat | **Fat** |
| Italic | Italic |
| | Quote | > Quote |
| Headline 1 | # Headline 1 |
| Headline 2 | ## Headline 2 |
| Matrix help | [Matrix help](https://element.uni-wuppertal.de/docs/) |
|
 |
| List entries | * List entry* List entry* List entry |
| Numbered lists | 1. Numbered list 2. Numbered list3. Numbered list |
|
$\displaystyle\sum_{j=0}^m\sum_{i=0}^n\\j\ne i$ |
The current MarkDown specification can be found here..
LaTeX formulas are not visible in the chat by default. To do this, you have to go to All Settings > Lab and under Communication you can activate LaTeX math formulas. This is a so-called lab function.