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John McLear 25c43140bc
feat(userlist): click a user to open chat with @<name> prefilled (#7660)
* feat(userlist): click a user to open chat with @<name> prefilled

Newcomers to a multi-user pad regularly fail to discover the chat
panel and the @-mention convention. Make the user list itself the
discovery affordance: clicking another user's row opens chat (if
hidden) and prefills the input with "@<their_name> ", ready to send.

The skin gets a small visual cue — pointer cursor on .usertdname and
an underline on hover — so the affordance is visible without
requiring a redesign. The color swatch keeps its own click semantics
(color picker), so the swatch cell is excluded from the new handler.

To let bot/AI plugins substitute their trigger string for an
otherwise-useless @-mention of the bot's display name (e.g.
"@AI Assistant" → "@ai"), this adds a new client-side hook,
chatPrefillFromUser, that takes {authorId, name, prefill} and lets
the first plugin to return a non-empty string override the default
prefill. Documented in doc/api/hooks_client-side.md alongside
chatSendMessage.

Plugin errors in the hook are caught — a misbehaving plugin can't
break the click. If chat is hidden by pad settings, chat.show() is
a no-op and the click effectively does nothing, which matches the
existing behavior of "no chat means no chat-related affordances".

The new prefill never clobbers a real partial message in the input;
if the user was mid-typing something, the @-mention is appended
rather than replacing.

* fix(userlist): don't steal rename focus + add Playwright coverage

Two follow-ups on review of the click-to-chat handler:

1. Bug (Qodo, correctness): clicking the rename <input> on an unnamed
   user's row triggered the new row handler, which then focused
   #chatinput and made it impossible to name unnamed users from the
   user list. Add an early-return that skips form controls inside
   the row (input/textarea/select/button/a/[contenteditable=true]).
   The swatch was already excluded; this widens the same idea to
   anything that's interactive on its own merits.

2. Test coverage: add a frontend Playwright spec
   (userlist_click_to_chat.spec.ts) covering the supported flows
   and the new regression:
   - clicking another named user opens chat and prefills "@<name> "
   - clicking the swatch opens color picker, not chat
   - clicking the rename <input> on an unnamed user keeps focus
     on the input (regression test for the bug above)
   - partial chat message is preserved when prefilling

* test: stabilise the partial-message preservation case

The 'partial message in chat input is preserved when prefilling'
case was flaking on CI. Three small changes:

- Seed the chat input with fill() rather than click() + keyboard.type().
  Earlier the test was racing chat.focus()'s own setTimeout(100) — when
  the keyboard.type started before that timer fired, the typing landed
  in whatever element had focus at the time, which wasn't always the
  chat input. fill() bypasses focus state entirely.
- Wait for the chat box to be visible before filling, so we don't race
  the chaticon click handler.
- Replace the two sequential expect/wait pairs after the daveRow click
  with one waitForFunction that asserts both 'hi there' and '@Dave' are
  in the input together. The prefill is async (setTimeout(50) inside
  the click handler), so a combined wait is more reliable than checking
  one piece, then snapshotting and asserting the other.

The other three cases in this file passed unchanged on CI; only this
fourth one was racy.

* fix: don't commit local .claude worktrees / var state

These were accidentally added in ffe947706 by an over-broad git add -A.
Both paths are workspace-local and unrelated to this PR.
2026-05-03 05:40:44 +01:00
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.vitepress chore: Rename some occurences of etherpad-lite to etherpad (#7552) 2026-04-19 16:53:57 +02:00
admin feat(updater): tier 1 — notify admin and pad users of available updates (#7601) 2026-05-01 20:02:12 +08:00
api feat(userlist): click a user to open chat with @<name> prefilled (#7660) 2026-05-03 05:40:44 +01:00
assets normalized 3rd level headings and adapted the max-width of the body (#5994) 2023-10-19 22:12:32 +02:00
public Added vitepress for documentation. (#6270) 2024-03-23 20:58:05 +01:00
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cli.md chore: adapted documentation for migrateDB.ts (#7088) 2025-08-24 20:50:16 +02:00
cookies.adoc normalized 3rd level headings and adapted the max-width of the body (#5994) 2023-10-19 22:12:32 +02:00
cookies.md Add creator-owned pad settings defaults (#7545) 2026-04-19 11:13:44 +01:00
database.adoc Added docs as asciidoctor with cross platform support. (#5733) 2023-06-21 13:13:31 +01:00
demo.md Added vitepress for documentation. (#6270) 2024-03-23 20:58:05 +01:00
docker.adoc feat!: replace Abiword with LibreOffice and add DOCX export (#7539) 2026-04-19 09:08:22 +01:00
docker.md feat(colors): add padOptions.fadeInactiveAuthorColors with toolbar UI (#7554) 2026-05-03 04:01:13 +08:00
documentation.adoc Added docs as asciidoctor with cross platform support. (#5733) 2023-06-21 13:13:31 +01:00
documentation.md Added vitepress for documentation. (#6270) 2024-03-23 20:58:05 +01:00
index.adoc Added docs as asciidoctor with cross platform support. (#5733) 2023-06-21 13:13:31 +01:00
index.md Added vitepress for documentation. (#6270) 2024-03-23 20:58:05 +01:00
localization.adoc fixed format of json (#5992) 2023-10-19 21:33:12 +02:00
localization.md Added vitepress for documentation. (#6270) 2024-03-23 20:58:05 +01:00
npm-trusted-publishing.md ci(docs): build on PRs and pin Node 22 (Qodo follow-up to #7640) (#7645) 2026-05-01 17:12:23 +01:00
package.json fix(docs): add oxc-minify so vitepress builds with rolldown-vite (#7640) 2026-05-01 13:48:12 +01:00
PLUGIN_FEATURE_DISABLES.md feat(test): feature tags + declared-disables contract for opt-out plugins (#7648) 2026-05-02 10:00:28 +01:00
PLUGIN_FRONTEND_TESTS.md ci(playwright): discover plugin frontend specs (closes #7622) (#7623) 2026-04-28 06:33:43 +01:00
plugins.adoc normalized 3rd level headings and adapted the max-width of the body (#5994) 2023-10-19 22:12:32 +02:00
plugins.md chore: remove dead root files (.travis.yml, .lgtm.yml, *.bat) (#7531) 2026-04-16 17:29:24 +01:00
privacy.md fix(docs): replace dead privacy.md link with GitHub URL (#7641) 2026-05-01 13:58:47 +01:00
skins.adoc Added docs as asciidoctor with cross platform support. (#5733) 2023-06-21 13:13:31 +01:00
skins.md feat: first version 2025-08-01 21:42:05 +02:00
stats.adoc chore: added documentation for prometheus 2025-08-25 21:13:38 +02:00
stats.md Added vitepress for documentation. (#6270) 2024-03-23 20:58:05 +01:00