Converse: Mentions and line break

Converse needs a delimiter in order to detect the @ character is being used to trigger a mentions list. Most of the time, a single space before the @ character works. It would be nice if it used the line break character as a delimiter, but it currently does not.

If I understand this issue correctly, you want Converse to treat line feed/carriage return \n as a delimiter to trigger the mentions list?

Woah, weird behavior. :)

Well, to be honest, I want Converse to open the "@" list whenever I need it.

So if I take example on Gitlab:

I type @ with a space before: It opens
I type @ with a line break, regardless of my os: It opens
I type @ with a special char before: It opens (Say: "@someone" or (@someone")
I type @ with a letter or a number before: It does not opens

This is one those issues that reminds me that I am not a front-end web developer and just a plain developer :-)

@XaviFP @jbpasquier Can we have a time estimate on this one. I believe it makes that UX of our chat painful. If the time estimate is not absurd, I would tackle it.

@XaviFP This issue is funded, no problem. However I'm not so sure what takes 12h. Isn't it about rewriting a regular expression and job done?

My bad @alexbourlier , for some reason after watching the video I though this issue and #158 (moved) where the same one ^^' I can estimate them separately if it's more convenient :)