Provided an extra parameter to the note class to disable the autocomplete functionality

app/assets/javascripts/gfm_auto_complete.js

@@ -14,21 +14,6 @@ class GfmAutoComplete {
     this.isLoadingData = {};
   }
 
-
-      _a = decodeURI("%C3%80");
-      _y = decodeURI("%C3%BF");
-
-      regexp = new RegExp("^(?:\\B|[^a-zA-Z0-9_" + atSymbolsWithoutBar + "]|\\s)" + flag + "(?!" + atSymbolsWithBar + ")((?:[A-Za-z" + _a + "-" + _y + "0-9_\'\.\+\-]|[^\\x00-\\x7a])*)$", 'gi');
-
-      match = regexp.exec(subtext);
-
-      if (match) {
-        return match[1];
-      } else {
-        return null;
-      }
-    }
-  },
   setup(input, enableMap = {
     emojis: true,
     members: true,
@@ -39,6 +24,7 @@ class GfmAutoComplete {
   }) {
     // Add GFM auto-completion to all input fields, that accept GFM input.
     this.input = input || $('.js-gfm-input');
+    this.enableMap = enableMap;
     this.setupLifecycle();
   }
 

app/assets/javascripts/gl_form.js

@@ -7,9 +7,10 @@ import GfmAutoComplete from './gfm_auto_complete';
 
 window.gl = window.gl || {};
 
-function GLForm(form) {
+function GLForm(form, enableGFM = false) {
   this.form = form;
   this.textarea = this.form.find('textarea.js-gfm-input');
+  this.enableGFM = enableGFM;
   // Before we start, we should clean up any previous data for this form
   this.destroy();
   // Setup the form
@@ -32,8 +33,14 @@ GLForm.prototype.setupForm = function() {
     this.form.addClass('gfm-form');
     // remove notify commit author checkbox for non-commit notes
     gl.utils.disableButtonIfEmptyField(this.form.find('.js-note-text'), this.form.find('.js-comment-button, .js-note-new-discussion'));
-
-    new GfmAutoComplete(gl.GfmAutoComplete && gl.GfmAutoComplete.dataSources).setup(this.form.find('.js-gfm-input'));
+    new GfmAutoComplete(gl.GfmAutoComplete && gl.GfmAutoComplete.dataSources).setup(this.form.find('.js-gfm-input'), {
+      emojis: true,
+      members: this.enableGFM,
+      issues: this.enableGFM,
+      milestones: this.enableGFM,
+      mergeRequests: this.enableGFM,
+      labels: this.enableGFM,
+    });
     new DropzoneInput(this.form);
     autosize(this.textarea);
   }

app/assets/javascripts/notes.js

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ const normalizeNewlines = function(str) {
 
     Notes.interval = null;
 
-    function Notes(notes_url, note_ids, last_fetched_at, view) {
+    function Notes(notes_url, note_ids, last_fetched_at, view, enableGFM = true) {
       this.updateTargetButtons = this.updateTargetButtons.bind(this);
       this.updateComment = this.updateComment.bind(this);
       this.visibilityChange = this.visibilityChange.bind(this);
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ const normalizeNewlines = function(str) {
 
       this.notes_url = notes_url;
       this.note_ids = note_ids;
+      this.enableGFM = enableGFM;
       // Used to keep track of updated notes while people are editing things
       this.updatedNotesTrackingMap = {};
       this.last_fetched_at = last_fetched_at;
@@ -523,7 +524,7 @@ const normalizeNewlines = function(str) {
 
     Notes.prototype.setupNoteForm = function(form) {
       var textarea, key;
-      new gl.GLForm(form);
+      new gl.GLForm(form, this.enableGFM);
       textarea = form.find(".js-note-text");
       key = [
         "Note",

app/views/shared/notes/_notes_with_form.html.haml

@@ -23,4 +23,4 @@
           to post a comment
 
 :javascript
-  var notes = new Notes("#{notes_url}", #{@notes.map(&:id).to_json}, #{Time.now.to_i}, "#{diff_view}")
+  var notes = new Notes("#{notes_url}", #{@notes.map(&:id).to_json}, #{Time.now.to_i}, "#{diff_view}", false)

changelogs/unreleased/32086-atwho-is-still-enabled-for-personal-snippet-comments-form.yml

+---
+title: Disable reference prefixes in notes for Snippets
+merge_request: 11278
+author: