Element-web: Tab completing @username mentions
People are used to mention people with @username from all the other services (telegram, discord, gitter, slack), so the tab completion should probably try to ignore a leading "@" during completion.
jcgruenhage
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the difficulty there is then what if I want to explicitly autocomplete by someone's MXID?
t3chguy
on 25 Jun 2018
Maybe try both and join the list of results?
jcgruenhage
on 25 Jun 2018
That is what I presumed you were suggesting, but thats not
explicitly by someone's MXID
That's by MXID/Displayname
t3chguy
on 25 Jun 2018
Oh I see what you mean... Well what about selecting the mxid entry from that list then? That should work, right?
jcgruenhage
on 25 Jun 2018
well I mean in the end they always get completed to a pill which has both MXID and Displayname (only the latter actually shown)
its just force of habit that I tend to autocomplete using people's MXIDs rather than their Displaynames
t3chguy
on 25 Jun 2018
well you could also build in a thing where for explicitly doing mxid's is \@localpar<tab> if you really need that
jcgruenhage
on 25 Jun 2018
to be fair, for consistency with other autocompletes, @ should complete on both name and MXID, like room and community completers do
t3chguy
on 25 Jun 2018
This sounds like a duplicate of https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/6782 (which is still a question?)
turt2live
on 25 Jun 2018
@turt2live yes, it is a duplicate, I had not found that. Thanks!
jcgruenhage
on 25 Jun 2018
(Forgot to close this yesterday)
jcgruenhage
on 26 Jun 2018
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to be fair, for consistency with other autocompletes,
@should complete on both name and MXID, like room and community completers do