ignore @ mentions which are not meant for the bot itself

[bb-Ricardo]

from #43

We have the bot in a shared channel with all lot of people who probably muted this channel, and sometimes you want to @ a person and you will get the response I didn't understand the command I would love a ignore character if a line starts with @ or # the line is not ment for the bot this would save some responses of the bot during a short convo about the problem like # I have acked the problem working on it or @here, working on it

[william-sy]

Thanks for making this a ticket!

[william-sy]

Currently, I have it like this. But I am not too happy about it just yet.

The @ always ignores if the ignore_mentions is True or False (ideally the command definition dictionary get adjusted accordingly?)

But if you enable ignore_mentions then the mention function gets ignored and is send to the @ command. I did not really see a different way of doing it.

    # strip any mention "strings" from beginning of message, or ignore if desired.
    ignore=config["slack.ignore_mentions"]
    matches = re.search(mention_regex, slack_message)
    if matches and ignore == False:
        slack_message = matches.group(2).strip()
    elif matches and ignore == True:
        slack_message = "@"

  # This ideally gets ignored if ignore_menstions == False
  # Or should not be needed in the first place.
    {
        "name": "@",
        "shortcut": None,
        "short_description": "Please ignore me",
        "long_description": "This will ignore slack mentions to your team after the `@` mark.",
        "command_handler": "ignore_conversation"
    }

Perhaps you have a idea about it?

[bb-Ricardo]

added to 'next-release'. Can you test it?

[william-sy]

Hi, I tested this and it seems to work perfectly! 👍

Sorry for the late response!

[bb-Ricardo]

no problem, thank you for testing. 👍