Nickname auto-completion should have priority rules

[devnoname120]

Description

Nickname auto-completion indiscriminately puts the nicknames of people who are not active on the channel with people who are active, which makes it less useful in my opinion.

There should be priority rules, for instance:

• Matches the whole nickname
• Matches the start of the nickname
• Matches anywhere in the nickname
• People who last talked
• People who last connected

Steps to reproduce

• Go into #henkaku
• Type xyz and then press <tab>.
• It's auto-completed to xyzz even though this one never speaks here and I want it to auto-complete to xyz.

Log: No.

Version information

• Platform: desktop
• OS: Arch Linux
• Version: 0.9.10

[dbkr]

Is this with the rich text editor or the normal one?

[lampholder]

@dbkr does the RTE already have some sort of prioritisation feature?

[devnoname120]

@dbkr This was with the normal one. I didn't test the new editor to see whether it has the same issue or not.

I can't reproduce my example right now (even with the basic editor). I'm not sure if the issue is fixed or not.

[lukebarnard1]

The new editor puts people who have spoken recently first, even if they don't really match the query used to tab-complete. I'll work on this today.

[lheckemann]

The new editor puts people who have spoken recently first

I can't see this behaviour, for me typing gc when "gchristensen (IRC)" last sent a message still suggests "grahamc" first, with the new editor enabled.

[t3chguy]

@lheckemann:

with the new editor enabled

this implies you are using riot.im/app (or an eq thereof) (as newer versions move to using this composer and this composer only)
the RTE has had MANY changes in the current release candidate, or on riot.im/staging if you'd like to have a play

[lheckemann]

That is indeed much better, thanks for the pointer!

[t3chguy]

no problem!

[lampholder]

Looks like this can be closed :)