Suggesting user names

[Joel Peshkin]

Chris L. Mason wrote:

>On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:39:36PM +0000, Gervase Markham wrote:
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>>David Miller wrote:
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>>>Just FYI, 2.17.1 and up already do this. :)
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>>That's not quite true; I think Chris's patch does more fuzzy matching 
>>than ours, which only matches an exact substring. Chris?
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>Yes, that's correct, although I'm not happy with the method I'm using
>right now.
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>The patch is very short, so I've attached it.  (Briefly, the
>DBNameToIdAndCheck function will show the list of suggestions if the name
>doesn't match, if the "suggest-users" parameter is on.)
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The idea of doing a fuzzy match is kind of cool, but slipping it into 
DBNameToId... is not the right place for it.  This needs to be an 
additional option in the generic user matching code (complete with 
confirmation).

See bug 162990