Is it possible to execute a function when a @mention is removed?

[oliveratgithub]

Is there a way to call a function when a @mention string is being removed from the text input by the user?

Reason: I‘m building an array with IDs of users to notify as soon as they are @mentioned - however, when you remove someone afterwards, I‘d need to update the array and removing the affected ID again.

Thanks for any hints

[mrsweaters]

There currently isn't a way to do this. I would like to add several more events to the library and this is a good candidate. I'll put this on the roadmap.

[oliveratgithub]

Cool, looking forward to it! 👍

So long I'm taking server-side care of possible duplicates due to the same @mentions...

[ejlocop]

@mrsweaters badly needed that one. looking forward. 👍👍

[Truemedia]

I have a workaround which could be tweaked later as a core solution (as reference I'm using vue-tribute).

Basically I use an array to store all current mentions that gets populated from the tribute-replaced event (only storing value). Whenever the text input changes I run a check and loop through all the mentions to see if they are still in the input.

If they are not then I remove them from the array, so that the array should always be a reference point for currently mentioned users.

Here is the vue code (my input is called comment because it's used in a comment system).

watch: {
    msg: function(comment) {
      // Polyfill for tribute-removed event
      this.mentions.map( (mention, i) => {
        if (!comment.includes(`@${mention}`)) {
          this.$delete(this.mentions, i);
        }
      });
    }
}

[neilcamm]

@Truemedia, wouldn't it be more performant to perform that check on submit?

[caramgardner]

Waking up an old thread - did this ever go anywhere?

[Yamaha32088]

Would be a great feature to have