wry reply doesn't put in @usernames you're replying to a post
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Is this necessary, or just a convention from Twitter that can be avoided? Needs some research, because it's still a reply without those @usernames.
From what I know, if the user(s) you are replying to are not mentioned, they won't see it. It'll still be a reply to the previous post in the post hierarchy (a reference in the new post to the old post) but I think we still need the usernames.
Good information. The next question, then, is whether to automatically insert the @usernames. One trend I see in GUI apps is, when replying to multiple people, to put the first @username, followed by the insertion point, followed by the rest of the @usernames, and users can delete @usernames, of course. I'm reluctant to do something that users can't see (automatically put in the @usernames), but maybe that's another setting.
As a CLI, wry should IMHO be less opinionated and more configurable, so a setting to insert @usernames or not makes sense. With the new external editor support coming in wry 1.6, it becomes easier to insert the @usernames and let users edit.
If you do not include a mention in a reply, then the poster of the post you're replying to will see "USER replied to POST on DATE" in their Interactions list, but the reply itself will not appear in their Mentions list. This means that mentions are the only way to "ping" more than just the immediately-previous poster in the reply chain.
I often do want to delete mentions in a reply when jumping off into a side conversation, so adding the mentions without the opportunity to delete them would cause me problems.
Inserting the @username(s) should be pretty easy now if you write to your temp file first then open it. :) It'd also be amazing if the tweet you're replying to is commented out below your reply line (kind of like ghi/mutt).
I had thought about putting the @username(s) in the temp file--I think I'll do that. I had NOT thought about showing the post you're replying to in the file--genius! Thanks for that! That's one of those things that, after you hear it, it seems obvious, but it had never occurred to me.
😄 Yay!! I'm glad to help :)