From c306f553a4c504f7e43e537dca1de20674d7c55f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: EthanBlackburn <ethan@nylas.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 12:08:59 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Contact first names now set to the first non-article word

Summary: Fixes T2179. This fixes the weird bug where first names like "The Nylas Team" was shortened to "The". The fix just chooses the first non-article word as the first name

Test Plan: tested manually

Reviewers: bengotow

Reviewed By: bengotow

Subscribers: jennie

Maniphest Tasks: T2179

Differential Revision: https://phab.nylas.com/D1715
---
 src/flux/models/contact.coffee | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/flux/models/contact.coffee b/src/flux/models/contact.coffee
index 827cb6ace..4dbde8c85 100644
--- a/src/flux/models/contact.coffee
+++ b/src/flux/models/contact.coffee
@@ -79,7 +79,11 @@ class Contact extends Model
     @lastName()
 
   firstName: ->
-    @_nameParts()[0] ? ""
+    articles = ['a', 'the']
+    for part in @_nameParts()
+      if part.toLowerCase() not in articles
+        return part
+    return ""
 
   lastName: ->
     @_nameParts()[1..-1]?.join(" ") ? ""