Tab completing @username mentions

[jcgruenhage]

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.

[t3chguy]

the difficulty there is then what if I want to explicitly autocomplete by someone's MXID?

[jcgruenhage]

Maybe try both and join the list of results?

[t3chguy]

That is what I presumed you were suggesting, but thats not

explicitly by someone's MXID

That's by MXID/Displayname

[jcgruenhage]

Oh I see what you mean... Well what about selecting the mxid entry from that list then? That should work, right?

[t3chguy]

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

[jcgruenhage]

well you could also build in a thing where for explicitly doing mxid's is \@localpar<tab> if you really need that

[t3chguy]

to be fair, for consistency with other autocompletes, @ should complete on both name and MXID, like room and community completers do

[turt2live]

This sounds like a duplicate of #6782 (which is still a question?)

[jcgruenhage]

@turt2live yes, it is a duplicate, I had not found that. Thanks!

[jcgruenhage]

(Forgot to close this yesterday)