tab completion of user names

[frivoal]

When in insert mode, it would be extremely convenient if pressing the Tab key autocompleted the current word as the name of some member of the room you're in.

I find this generally useful, but for me it raises to life saver in some contexts: when taking live minutes of a meeting in a chat room, typing people's name can be very time consuming without this, or trivial with it.

Some alternative key combination may be alright, but I already have so much muscle memory that it'd be really nice if it was Tab.

People actually wanting to want to type tabulations into a chat client is exceedingly rare (many clients don't even support it), so we wouldn't really lose anything.

[mordquist]

As per the docs on Sending there already exists <C-N> and <C-P> for next/previous auto-completion of names/rooms/emoji. I tried binding <Tab> under macros in config.toml which seems to work great. Binding <S-Tab> did not however.

If you need to insert a tab character, you can type <C-V><Tab>.

config.toml:

[macros.insert]
"<Tab>" = "<C-N>"   # works
"<S-Tab>" = "<C-P>" # also works

EDIT: <S-Tab> works as of modalkit v.0.0.19

[frivoal]

Thanks! I thought I has seen this somewhere, but couldn't remember where. The config.toml part is especially useful.

However, this autocompletes fully qualified matrix usernames like@someobody:matrix.org, but I would instead (or also) auto-completion of Display Names.

[mordquist]

What is really needed for this is support for intentional mentions (MSC3952). There seems to be support for it in the rust matrix sdk but I haven't looked in to it properly.