On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 16:38:38 +0200 (CET) Vadim Zeitlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
VZ> On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 13:01:10 +0200 Harald Gutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: VZ> VZ> HG> first, after re-thinking about that, I think the nickname-only VZ> expansion VZ> HG> should take place if it's an exact match (or may be "very close", VZ> or VZ> HG> "closer" than any other address found, this could be done with VZ> some kind of VZ> HG> "string matching distance"), this enables me to give some friends VZ> very short VZ> HG> shortcuts and have them expanded without much mouse clicks. VZ> VZ> This does work like this now, unless I'm missing something. not in my version of M (0.6) I have a friend which I gave the nick name "sk", when I enter "sk" in the address field and press Enter, I get a list with two entries (may be more), first is his address, second is some address with .sk at the end. sk is an exact match for his nick name, so I expect to get his address expanded. Ok, his entry is the first (but I think, that happens randomly), then "Ok" is the default button, but surprise, "Enter" doesn't dismiss the dialog, but does nothing, why? (btw. the cursor keys don't work either). VZ> HG> On the other hand, when not being "close" to a nickname this VZ> should _not_ VZ> HG> expand to the nickname, VZ> VZ> Why not? hmm, looks like I told nonsense :-) I think what I really mean instead of "nick name" is a kind of shortcut. That's because I was used to mis-use the nick name for this purpose in Outlook. VZ> HG> but to a choice-list (menu?). VZ> VZ> Well, we already have the expansion dialog - is this what you mean? Yes, but it's a little bit too big for my taste (not important) and it is not keyboard controlled (very important). When I enter some letters in the address field, I usually want to continue using keys, not being forced to switch to the mouse. VZ> HG> When using a "string VZ> HG> matching distance" the menu order could derive from this. So you VZ> just have VZ> HG> to press Enter most of the time, because the "best" match is VZ> listed first. VZ> VZ> This seems to be more difficult to implement than Robo Cernansky's VZ> ideas VZ> (and the ones in my reply to him) and I'm not sure it will really work VZ> better as any algorithms trying to understand what the human really VZ> meant VZ> have a nice propriety to fail in some weird ways constantly. generally, there surely are some unimportant parts of a mail address, e.g. I seldom want to expand on the top level domain (like in my example above). Most of the time the name should be considered first, then the first domain part, etc. An exact match in one of the more important parts should be made prominent, but don't do that on an unimportant part (top level domain). Also, the first letters of words are more important than the ends. VZ> So I'd rather let the user specify the order in which he wants the VZ> expansions to be himself IMHO this reduces the usefulness of the auto-collected AB, but could be an optional means to force preferred addresses. But, maintaining priorities semms to be very uncomfortable to me, Especially when using only 10 levels, because you would often want to insert some address somewhere, then you would have to rearrange some priority values. I think, dragging an address in the choice box would be much better. IMHO this also should be keyboard controllable. There seems to be a general problem with such a priority: IMHO an address doesn't have a global priority for an expansion, but instead depends on the keyword. E.g. if I have a sister called Heike and a friend called S.Keller, and I'm often mailing to my sister, I still don't want the keyword "ke" to prefer Heike. This is because I seldom use the end of a word for searching. VZ> or, ideally, automatically adjust this order VZ> by VZ> moving the expansions used more often to the top. ok, this should work in some cases, but would prefer very often used addresses on very weak matches, too. I have some doubts if this is what I really want _______________________________________________ Mahogany-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mahogany-users
