# Tab-completion should automatically add a space after a username

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/tab-completion-should-automatically-add-a-space-after-a-username/45155>\
**Category:** UX\
**Tags:** pr-welcome\
**Created:** [June 2, 2016, 7:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tab-completion-should-automatically-add-a-space-after-a-username/45155 "2016-06-02T19:01:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![grahamperrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/grahamperrin/32/71406_2.png) [@grahamperrin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/grahamperrin)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2017, 1:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tab-completion-should-automatically-add-a-space-after-a-username/45155/11 "2017-05-01T13:40:01Z")

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> [@fefrei](#):
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> … Add a space and place the cursor behind it, but watch what the user types next: If it is punctuation, silently remove the space. If the user types a single space, simply ignore it, assuming the user did not notice that the space was already there. …

That’s a vaguely familiar set of behaviours but (sorry) at the time of writing, I can’t recall where I found the set. For me, it probably was _not_ with iOS. Wherever it was: I recalled liking the behaviours.

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