Honestly not sure if this is a bug or an enhancement, but if you're using the chat-radius feature of EssentialsChat, it will make chat limited to a certain radius, but players can still use /me to get around the local chat. It would be nice to have emotes included and confined to local chat just like normal messages.

That should work :) Test and let me know how it goes.

I just tried testing it and received some really weird behavior. So I tested with players and with OPs. When players in a radius of each other use /me, they cannot see their own messages, but players nearby can see their emotes. Operators can also see their messages.

As an operator, I tried using /me several times and I also could not see my emotes. Players outside the radius could not see them either, but players in my radius could see my emotes.

Hope this all makes sense!

See https://ci.drtshock.net/job/EssentialsX/186/ :)

This was confirmed working.