Support autocomplete of wildcard mentions #1489
Labels
area: autocomplete
help wanted
This issue should be clear enough to work on
high priority
should be done as soon as possible
missing feature: user
A missing feature for all users, present in another Zulip client
version parity: <=2.1
version parity: 8
version parity: 9
Milestone
Mentions in general are summarized here: https://docs.zulip.com/help/mention-a-user-or-group
Many of the options are autocompleted as documented in our FAQ entry.
Current outstanding elements are:
@**topic**
(only feature level 224, Zulip 8?)@**stream**
/@**all**
/@**everyone**
(feature level 247 addschannel
, will be Zulip 9)For feature-level-dependence, we should skip autocompleting any that do not match the server version having a sufficiently large feature level. The web app currently only shows the two shortest (available) matching wildcard options - but best to confirm with the web app behavior when implementing.
Implementation of this may depend on elements of #1164, to allow any matching wildcard mentions to be made distinct from stream/group mentions, or other related improvements. In a similar way, we should examine the order of web app autocomplete for comparison.
A connected feature would be to extend notifications, which also relates to some of these elements and could be improved substantially in #666.
This may need some discussion first, but a sample with tests should be well-defined by the above.
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