Describing actions in Pidgin via asterisk

[satori]

Hi all--
I was chatting the other day, and I noticed that some of my friends can describe actions as such:

(9:41:05 PM) user1: blah
(9:41:25 PM) user2: blah
***user2 is blah-ing
(9:42:08 PM) user1: blah blah

...and I am now wondering how this little trick is done (the asterisks, with no [user2:] immediately preceding it). Any input? I use Pidgin, if that makes any difference.

Thanks much.

[David]

Prefix your message with "/me ".

/me <message here>

Also supported in trillian.