/** Supports Discourse's custom @mention syntax for calling out a user in a post. It will add a special class to them, and create a link if the user is found in a local map. **/ Discourse.Dialect.inlineRegexp({ start: '@', matcher: /^(@[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9_]{2,14})/m, wordBoundary: true, emitter: function(matches) { var username = matches[1], mentionLookup = this.dialect.options.mentionLookup; if (mentionLookup && mentionLookup(username.substr(1))) { return ['a', {'class': 'mention', href: Discourse.getURL("/users/") + username.substr(1).toLowerCase()}, username]; } else { return ['span', {'class': 'mention'}, username]; } } });