On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Kevin J. McCarthy <[email protected]> wrote: > Xu Wang wrote: >> As discussed on mutt-users, when in the compose map, if one wants to >> change the "from" email address, one can do ESC+f. It would be nice to >> have the tab behavior only expand to matches that match against >> alternates. > > Just to clarify, this is from > <cajhtkng7hjkyp1qo_xd2-57s7xyosv_uzecrq4gv9zfgon9...@mail.gmail.com> and > the request is expanding only the aliases whose expanded values match > against alternates. > >> Is this a reasonable request? > > No I don't think so. The prompt is shared by all the address fields, > and there would be significant effort involved for something you can > easily do yourself: > > I would follow Marcus C. Gottwald's excellent suggestion to prefix > aliases for yourself with something like _me instead. This gives you > exactly what you want: type _me or even just _, hit Tab once or twice > and you have the list of aliases just for yourself.
Thank you so much for the reply and clear explanation, Kevin. I really appreciate it! I also *really* appreciate all of the time you have spent on mutt development. Highest regards, Xu
