Smarter Autofill

[ghost]

This might take a while to implement.

Lets say there are 5 users chatting:

• Bob1
• Bob2
• Bob3
• Bob4
• nahtnam

and Bob3 asks me a question. When I type bo it autofills Bob1, even though I want to reply to Bob3.

I think webchat orders like this:

1. If a user mentions you, he is at the top
2. Then order users by last active.

Im not sure if any of this makes sense to you, but its basically "smart tabbing".

Let me know if its unclear and ill try explaining a different way.

[erming]

I understand what you're asking and it sounds like a good idea.

It would requires some tweaking on how the list of tabcompleted words are stored (basically, it's just an array anyway). I'll ping this thread when I implement this eventually.

[ghost]

Thanks! :)

[sc0tt]

could a space also be added when the name is auto filled as the first word? or even a colon and a space ": "? Either of those would be great.

[ghost]

+1 for the space or colon (or both)

[furier]

👍

[mattl]

So, I came here to file a bug cause this wasn't working at all for me on latest Firefox Android build, and I thought maybe I'd ask for it to be added.

I'd like to be able to type 'cj' in a channel and see a list of users that start with 'cj' and tap one of them and have it prefill their name plus a colon and a space in the text box and then give focus back to the text field.

[ghost]

@mattl You can pretty much do this already by typing cj and hitting tab until you find the person you are looking for.

[mattl]

I don't think there's an easy/obvious tab key on the standard Android keyboard. My use-case is mobile.

[ghost]

@mattl Ohhh. Sorry. Misread your post.

[erming]

Fixed here: a76df88

When someone sends a message in a channel, they're moved to the top of the tab completion queue.

I'll release this together with a new version later tonight (0.43.0).