I tested it and it is working perfectly. Are you sure you activated all the options in preferences>skip? Thanks for the report anyway.
OK, this has me baffled about that "Skip" option in Preferences then, and it appears I've been doing things wrong all along.
In all other RenPy games I play I
disable all those options, so they are not highlighted or have that | line next to them, and yet skipping in-game works fine.
Except..... now that I think about it more..... in one or two other games I remember having that same problem. At the time I just said "meh, I can press space bar repeatedly I guess"
Now I'm not sure what that option actually should do.
But I just enabled them all in this game......
and now skipping works fine.
What does that Preferences option actually control then? Or, rather, what
should it control, or do?