On Fri Feb 11 2011 Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Indeed, we have a problem here, and I think that part of the problem is
> on the side of bbdb-complete-name's behavior: it should include the name
> (with quotes) along with the email address so that it is actually
> a completion rather than a lookup.
>
> Of course, that won't fix it all, since the kind of completion it would
> then offer would still not be "prefix completion", so you'd have to make
> sure you use something like `substring' in completion-styles (and that
> was not available in Emacs-23).
I am really not sure how BBDB email "completeion" could be squeezed
into the usual emacs completion styles. Say, we are talking about
the email address
Joe Smith <f...@bar.org>
Now the idea is that typing "foo" would give you the above line.
Also, this command implements the concept of "cycling", which is yet
more orthogonal to usual completion:
If Joe Smith also has the email <sm...@baz.com> and you apply this
command to the above (already expanded) email address, you can cycle
through all (properly expanded) email addresses of Joe Smith.
On the other hand, I am not sure whether it's worth the effort to
try to use more sophisticated high-level functions for this problem.
(Maybe my problem is that I do not know the latest GNU Emacs
completion goodies I am missing without these high-level functions.)
In any case, currently the most complicated part of
bbdb-complete-mail calculates possible completions. But inserting
them requires just three lines:
(let ((completion-base-position (list beg end)))
(with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Completions*"
(display-completion-list dwim-completions)))
which is already based on some more recent code for performing
completions.
Cheers,
Roland
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