Don,
Regarding your message dated: Friday, March 03, 2000...
DT> Hi everyone,
DT> I'm wondering what Nicknames (Handles) and Favourites are used for
DT> within TheBat!
Nicknames are used as shortcuts to people's email addresses. There are
problems with the way it works and rather than describe in full those
shortcomings I will attach a previous reply made by Jast to a similar
enquiry I made on the subject.
Favourites is another shortcut feature that works in a slightly
different way. If you place the mouse cursor in one of the address
fields of the compose window (To:, CC:, BCC:) and right-click then a
menu appears. At the bottom of the menu will be attached the
names/email addresses of your favourites. Selecting one of these from
the menu will enter the relevant details into the address field.
To reinforce what I've just said, go to your address book and pick
out someone who you may like to regard as a favourite. 'Tick' the
favourite box for this person and then go back to the bat and open
up a 'compose new message' window.
Place the cursor over the To: field, right-click and when the menu
appears you should see that the person you have just selected to
be a favourite appears on the bottom of that menu.
One final point to mention on this subject is that if the address-book
entry of the person you selected as a favourite appears in a
sub-address-book of your main address book (I think in Bat parlance
this is called a "group") then when you right-click in the compose
window address field you will instead see a sub-menu titled with the
group-name and your favourite person will appear inside that sub menu.
I hope this proved useful - and the attached earlier message about
nicknames etc... from Jast is below...
Cheers,
Mark
>> I am used to Netscape Messenger's pinpoint addressing where you begin to
>> enter a recipient's email address and then complete it using the tab-key.
>> The client matches against either real or nick names and shows
>> abbreviated lists when there are multiple matches. I have found that The
>> Bat is much more fussy as to when it auto-completes a name. Pressing tab
>> rarely works and the stated function-key (<ctrl><+>) works in only a fey
>> cases.
>
> I believe it works mostly correctly here:
> a) a phrase is auto-completed without additional keyboard intervention if
> it appears in the drop-down list of the address field.
> b) a phrase is auto-completed from the address book if entered incompletely
> (at least 4 letters) and you change focus to another field. This only
> works when entering part of a real name or the full handle.
> c) press Ctrl-Plus: auto-complete from the address book by entering any
> number of letters and go to next address containing these letters at the
> start when pressing continually. This will also complete email addresses
> you start to type without the name put in.
>
> Situations under which this does not work (bugs AFAICS):
>
> b) won't complete names shorter than 5 characters or where the first name
> contains less than 5 chars. It also won't complete handles with spaces
> in them, no matter how much you enter.
> c) won't complete from handles, even if entered completely.
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