diff --git a/src/renderer/utils/suggestText.js b/src/renderer/utils/suggestText.js
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+// https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/blob/master/app/javascript/mastodon/components/autosuggest_textarea.js
+const textAtCursorMatch = (str, cursorPosition, separator = '@') => {
+  let word
+
+  let left = str.slice(0, cursorPosition).search(/\S+$/)
+  let right = str.slice(cursorPosition).search(/\s/)
+
+  if (right < 0) {
+    word = str.slice(left)
+  } else {
+    word = str.slice(left, right + cursorPosition)
+  }
+
+  if (!word || word.trim().length < 3 || [separator].indexOf(word[0]) === -1) {
+    return [null, null]
+  }
+
+  word = word.trim().toLowerCase()
+
+  if (word.length > 0) {
+    return [left + 1, word]
+  } else {
+    return [null, null]
+  }
+}
+
+export default textAtCursorMatch
diff --git a/test/mocha/suggestText.spec.js b/test/mocha/suggestText.spec.js
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+import assert from 'assert'
+import suggestText from '../../src/renderer/utils/suggestText'
+
+describe('account', () => {
+  context('Only account name', () => {
+    const str = '@h3pote'
+    it('should match', () => {
+      const [start, word] = suggestText(str, 7)
+      assert.strictEqual(str, word)
+      assert.strictEqual(start, 1)
+    })
+  })
+  context('Beginning of the sentence', () => {
+    const str = '@h3pote toot body'
+    it('should match', () => {
+      const [start, word] = suggestText(str, 7)
+      assert.strictEqual(word, '@h3pote')
+      assert.strictEqual(start, 1)
+    })
+  })
+  context('Halfway of the sentence', () => {
+    const str = 'toot body @h3pote toot'
+    it('should match', () => {
+      const [start, word] = suggestText(str, 17)
+      assert.strictEqual(word, '@h3pote')
+      assert.strictEqual(start, 11)
+    })
+  })
+  context('End of the sentence', () => {
+    const str = 'toot body @h3pote'
+    it('should match', () => {
+      const [start, word] = suggestText(str, 17)
+      assert.strictEqual(word, '@h3pote')
+      assert.strictEqual(start, 11)
+    })
+  })
+  context('No space', () => {
+    const str = 'tootbody@h3pote'
+    it('should not match', () => {
+      const [start, word] = suggestText(str, 15)
+      assert.strictEqual(word, null)
+      assert.strictEqual(start, null)
+    })
+  })
+})