How to get a list of the mentioned users

[aqzbouhid]

First and foremost, I understand there is a similiar question in #92. However, the solution proposed by @mrsweaters, although on paper makes a lot of sense, when it comes to working with my trix editor, it just doesnt cut.

This is what I used (based on his solution):

The result:

The issue I believe is that trix has an HTML Sanitizer, in which when Tribute tries to include any tag (span was the one I was going for) it applies the effect of the tag (if it is bold, or italic for example) and prints out just the string inside the editor.

I would love for the solution to actually work using contenteditable='false'. The best solution would be a not-editable @mention that if the user typed backspace it would delete the whole mention. However, my turnaround was to include the mentions as '<a>' tags and get the substrings between '@' and '</a>', but this method has some flaws.
Anyone had this issue and managed to fix it?

My turnaround:

[thewhaleiam]

Did you find a solution to this?