# 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:** ![jancborchardt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jancborchardt/32/57442_2.png) [@jancborchardt](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jancborchardt)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 7:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tab-completion-should-automatically-add-a-space-after-a-username/45155/5 "2016-06-04T19:40:33Z")

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@pfaffman right, in the example you bring up it doesn’t make sense. However there are also many examples where a space is in order. Like at the beginning of the sentence as I just did, or saying »I like what @pfaffman said there«.

(Also, strangely enough a space is actually inserted after a mention. But the cursor is set before it. Do you know what I mean? This seems to point to that it’s actually intended that a space is inserted but there might be a bug @codinghorror?)

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