Hi Pierre,

Excerpts from Pierre Baillet's message of Thu Nov 22 00:57:08 -0800 2007:
> I'd like to alter the way the ContactManager work so that it could be
> able to save contact which don't have an alias but for which the #name
> has been modified:

Sounds great.

> The problem is that the contact manager is not able to handle
> alias-less contacts and hence any modification to a Person during the
> run of Sup is never saved for unaliased contacts (I actually patched
> my sup to allow fullname modification before understanding that sup
> will never save these changes :p).

I think the best solution is to alter the contact manager such that it
can handle contacts without aliases. I think it currently stores
everything as a hash from alias to Person object, so you'll have to add
an array instead.

On the UI side, we can mimic Mutt-style alias prompts. Press 'l' and it
asks you for the person name (pre-filled with the name from the email),
and then asks you for the alias, allowing you to hit enter for none.
Something like that.

> Another idea would be to force all displays to use aliases instead of
> real names when displaying emails.  This is probably simple to
> implement because there is no need to rework on the Contact Manager,
> but i still think that "full name" (this full name is used in TO:
> headers)  and "alias" (this alias is only used internally) should be
> different

I agree that it's better that the two fields are different.

-- 
William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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