VZ> HG> A friend of mine suggested to separate the "shortcut" expansion VZ> from the VZ> HG> "search" expansion, which seems to be a clean way out of the VZ> problem VZ> VZ> The search dialog in the address book editor already has the VZ> check/radioboxes to choose the options to use for searching, so maybe VZ> we VZ> just should provide a toolbar button in the composer to invoke it?
the whole "expand" thing could be replaced by searching, but this would be slower. This is why anyone wants to have auto-complete/expand features. But then it has to do the "right" thing. I think you are right, if someone says: "but I need to find this seldem used address, too", then the answer is: "search it!". IMHO, completion has to solve fast access to everyday addresses. VZ> HG> VZ> This is why I decided to set "mail alias substring expansion" VZ> option VZ> HG> VZ> to VZ> HG> VZ> false by default now. VZ> HG> VZ> HG> but I often use the _beginning_ of a word for searching :-) VZ> VZ> Yes, but "mail alias substring expansion" doesn't do this: that's why I said "but" VZ> if it's on, the VZ> code checks for the matches in the middle as well while if it's not VZ> (more VZ> sensible IMHO) it only checks for the matches at the start. but then it does the job already? I thought it wouldn't find any substring (also not at the beginning). Ok, I switched it off, now. VZ> I.e. if you have typed "foo" and press TAB, normally it looks for VZ> "foo*" VZ> while with this option on it would look for "*foo*". The latter is also VZ> useful sometimes but less so than the formet (IMHO again). so we could also allow *foo when only looking at beginnings to find substrings, and wouldn't f*bar be useful, too? After trying that, I see that all this already works :-) (apologies, I'm using M for only one month now) So I switch substring expansion off, and use *foo if I want to find a substring, very nice. Also, "useful sometimes" means, it could be replaced by searching in the address book, if this would become more comfortable, e.g.: - drag and drop to an edit field - context menu: "Send Message" (eventually also on double click) this one is very useful, if you often write messages to different addresses other: - drag and drop inside the tree - place autocollect folder at end of tree _______________________________________________ Mahogany-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mahogany-users
