Tagging people in messages

[khubo]

The current implementation of tagging people in message has the following problems:

• have to tag them at the beginning of a message
• can't tag multiple people
• can't direct at particular user if similar user name are present (not a priority)
• no highlighting for tags

Wouldn't it better if we modify the implementation to fix the above concerns? A possible solution would be to copy the implementation of discord, which has a structure like @khubo#4723 - the hash part can be user's public key. Adding @ should make parsing and suggesting easier in the client. Also, it lets one to tag a user anywhere in the message. The last part, hash, can be used to identify the user in case of multiple usernames.

p.s : the hash might be an overkill at this point.

[cblgh]

relevant context (that came after the question that was posed above) from the public cabal

19:27:29 <kira> khubo cblgh: i'm not clear on what the problem is re mentioning?                                                                        
19:27:35 <kira> from reading your msgs                                                                                                                  
19:29:02 <kira> oh i see: 1. unintentional tagging, and 2. tags needing to start at the beginning of a line + one user                                  
19:29:16 <kira> #2 isn't true, at least not on cabal-cli                                                                                                
19:29:26 <kira> i see a mention if 'kira' appears anywhere in the message, not unlike irc                                                               
19:30:49 <kira> i haven't heard of any unintentional mentions before, re #1, but it could happen if you chose a common word as your name                
20:07:45 <khubo> probably  I am a lot biased towards the desktop client, and comparing it with discord rather than IRC                                  
20:08:49 <khubo> kira: autocomplete and tagging only works in the beginning for desktop client, and it doesnt actually indicate the mention as of now   
20:09:38 <khubo> by unintentional tagging I also meant the ability to use a username without actually tagging the user                                  
20:09:49 <@cblgh> khubo: what do you mean by "it doesnt actually indicate the mention as of now"                                                        
20:10:15 <@cblgh> there's no highlighting in desktop?                                                                                                   
20:10:24 <khubo> cblgh: nope                                                                                                                            
20:10:27 <@cblgh> oh wow                                                                                                                                
20:10:29 <@cblgh> didnt know                                                                                                                            
20:10:41 <khubo> lemme grab teh screen.. one sec                                                                                                        
20:11:05 <@cblgh> yes! thanks                                                                                                                           
20:12:49 <@cblgh> it would be really nice to extract (whatever makes sense) this tab completion code from cli to cabal-client                           
         https://github.com/cabal-club/cabal-cli/blob/master/neat-screen.js#L48-L160                                                                    
20:13:01 <@cblgh> kinda in awe now that i see how long it is lmao                                                                                       
20:13:07 <khubo> https://ibb.co/jWH33Ln                                                                                                                 
20:13:19 <@cblgh> khubo: and if i mention you like this?                                                                                                
20:14:45 <khubo> cblgh: https://ibb.co/ZHMtJvw                                                                                                          
20:15:35 <@cblgh> ah!                                                                                                                                   
20:16:12 <khubo> I will look into that code later                                                                                                       
         Thanks for tons of comments  in the code ^_^                                                                                                   
20:18:29 <@cblgh> so if we loop back to what timgoeller was saying this whole thing starts to make more sense                                           
20:18:57 <@cblgh> i.e. there is this part that's added to the message https://github.com/cabal-club/cabal-client/blob/master/src/cabal-details.js#L92   
20:19:36 <@cblgh> but more useful (and what tim was saying) was we could add that information here instead:                                             
         https://github.com/cabal-club/cabal-client/blob/master/src/cabal-details.js#L101-L105                                                          
20:20:00 <@cblgh> in what tim call the envelope (the object that is emitted)                                                                            
20:20:14 <@cblgh> kira: have you had any graphical glitches in cabal-cli recently?                                                                      
20:20:19 <@cblgh> if not: what version are you on                                                                                                       
20:21:19 <khubo> ah, yes.                                                                                                                               
         I havent really used cabal-cli much - and not in a long time                                                                                   
20:21:34 <khubo> I should give it a try prolly                                                                                                          
20:21:37 <@cblgh> yeah i basically only use it haha                                                                                                     
20:21:52 <@cblgh> just more convenient since i have a terminal session going pretty much always                                                         
20:21:56 <khubo> and probably nickwarner doesnt use cli much either ;P                                                                                  
20:22:22 <@cblgh> it's good tho, means we have natural coverage of actual usage in the clients :3