Implement substring autocompletion for /msg #1985
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People with huge contact lists most likely happen to have contacts starting with popular names more often. They can use /msg Arthur to find the correct person. But if they have 50 Arthurs it will take a while. Using the surname might be faster. So a substring search of /msg Clarke<tab> will be faster. Fix #1984
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roster_contact_autocomplete() is used for:
@mdosch @weiss @sjaeckel |
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If you have a lot of Arthurs the issue of having to tab a lot till you find the right Arthur can happen with any command, so I think we should allow the substring search everywhere. But for the ordering I'd like to rank hits starting with the search term higher. E.g. if you have "Arthur Anchor", Arthur Boyle", "Arthur Clarke", "Arthur Dent" and "Clark Kent" |
People with huge contact lists most likely happen to have contacts starting with popular names more often. They can use /msg Arthur to find the correct person.
But if they have 50 Arthurs it will take a while. Using the surname might be faster. So a substring search of /msg Clarke will be faster.
Fix #1984