jquery.mentionsInput

This is a fork of Kenneth Auchenberg's jquery.mentionsInput.js. I had to hack in a bunch of tweaks and features for a project, and the result is a version that is API incompatible with the original, but possibly useful to some people. So here it is.

For more information on the original, checkout http://podio.github.com/jquery-mentions-input

New Features

• A different, non-callback-based set of methods for accessing information about the mentions input.
• Reads an initial value from the textarea, parsing out mentions and prepopulating the mentions collection. To do so it looks for text matching the output of the mentionItemSyntax template, so if you change that you should also change mentionItemRegex.
• Allows you to activate the autocomplete dialog using only @; to do so, simply set minChars to 0.
• Allows you to mention users multiple times, and doesn't just highlight the first text that matches a mentioned name.
• Added the option to not use elastic again (in my case the textarea was already using a different autogrow plugin).
• Make <ESC> close the autocomplete dialog.