Re: Automatic address completion and general address handling

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 02/16/2006 10:08:46 PM, Mark Flacy wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> The help text that is part of Balsa 2.3.10 mentions that...
>
> "Also, some address books are expensive to lookup. You will need then  
> to press Ctrl-R to explicitly expand the alias."

This doc is unfortunately out of date...

> That doesn't appear to be the case, both in that there isn't any way  
> to tag an address book as being expensive and that Ctrl-R doesn't do  
> anything that I could tell.
>
> Searching my company's LDAP database for addresses is expensive; when  
> balsa decides to try is also uncontrollable.  It is especially  
> infuriating when I am in the middle of typing the name and Balsa  
> attempts to perform the lookup.  It would be nice if we could  
> configure a delay in keyboard input prior to trotting off to perform  
> the search.  It would also be nice to have a key binding that would  
> trigger the lookup when the auto-expand is set to false.  I'd be  
> happy with just the latter.
>
> It would also be exceedingly nice to have a widget that allowed you  
> to efficiently edit the various address lists in a reply.  I'm not  
> certain what the interaction is, but attempting to highlight subsets  
> of the address list in order to delete appears to trigger the LDAP  
> lookup.

In other words, there are two problems:

1. LDAP queries should not block the typing (I think I can look at this  
but no promises)
.
2. the address widget should allow for easier address list edition  
(multiline widget?)

How long does it take your server to answer a query? Are we talking  
about 1 second, 10 seconds?

Pawel