Autocomplete nickname when colon is attached to prefix

[jeffreyroberts]

Bug, feature, or question?

feature

Current behavior

nic:

results in

nic:

Desired behavior

would be dope if it did autocomplete like BitchX

nickname:

[weechatter]

why not pressing [TAB] instead of colon? nic[tab] should autocomplete to nickname:

[jeffreyroberts]

BitchX does both, Tab for autocomplete as well as :

I personally just made the change from BitchX to weechat today, im sure others will appreciate this feature as well =]

[weechatter]

What does BitchX do when there are multiple nicks? eg: nic1 , nic2 , nic3 and you do nic:

complete with last spoken?

IMO this could be also done with a script as well

[jeffreyroberts]

[11:17AM] remo, efu:

It appears BitchX doesn't do anything when there are multiple nicknames behind the colon

[judwhite]

@jeffreyroberts I think @weechatter means what if you do "nic:" and you have "niceguy", "nicotine", "nicknacks" and "nickelback" in the channel. I don't know about BitchX, but X-Chat when using tab completes the first name alphabetically, and hitting tab again will cycle through the list of nicks with the prefix you had entered.

[jjdredd]

I also think autocompletion for nicknames is a very useful feature. I might look into it myself

Should autocompletion work everywhere in the input message, or just when you are starting to type the message, and not somewhere in the middle?

[weechatter]

there are a couple of options for completion, like a "inline" completion, see /fset weechat.completion

[jjdredd]

I have found several vars that control nick completion.

weechat.completion.nick_completer
weechat.completion.nick_first_only
weechat.completion.nick_ignore_chars

Does this mean that nick completion feature is already implemented?

[trygveaa]

@jjdredd: Yes, WeeChat has nick completion. What this issue is asking for is being able to complete a nick after typing a partial nick and :. If you don't type the : it works fine.

[jjdredd]

Oh, my bad. So I guess this:

@jeffreyroberts I think @weechatter means what if you do "nic:" and you have "niceguy", "nicotine", "nicknacks" and "nickelback" in the channel. I don't know about BitchX, but X-Chat when using tab completes the first name alphabetically, and hitting tab again will cycle through the list of nicks with the prefix you had entered.

is the desired behavior?

[weechatter]

@jjdredd : nick completion is part of core and implemented since begin of time :-D

jeffreyroberts asked for a function when you "nic:" (double point instead of TAB) for autocomplete. For me, a bit pointless, because you have TAB and it will autocomplete nick and add a char behind the nick (weechat.completion.nick_completer).

Therefore i asked what happen when you "nic:" and the nicklist has different matches like "niclas", "nicolaus", nice". in weechat you can cycle through the nicks.