Re: Automatic address completion and general address handling

[Peter Bloomfield <peterbloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 02/17/2006 11:53:25 AM Fri, Mark Flacy wrote:
> On 2006.02.17 05:57, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> > On 02/16/2006 04:08:46 PM Thu, 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."
> >
> > I believe the issue is that LDAP books are *not* flagged as  
> > expensive, when they certainly should be!  You can turn off  
> > auto-completion in Settings: Address Books: Modify, but that  
> > turns off both auto-completion and user-requested completion  
> > (ctrl+R).
>
> Thanks for the patch, which solved the delay problem.   
> User-requested completion still doesn't work.  (Or it isn't  
> bound to Ctrl+R or Ctrl+r.)
>
> I don't mind looking in the code, but I cannot tell where or  
> how that key sequence would be bound to a function.  It doesn't  
> appear to have a presence in any menu.

I'd never noticed that turning off format=flowed disables ctrl+R  
/both/ for reflowing text /and/ for manual  
address-completion--that's just nasty !-)

Escape might be a better key for manual completion.  You already  
have to use it to clear the popup list when you want to move on  
without selecting a completion, so using it to toggle the popup  
would be a minor change in functionality.  Apparently no address  
books have been marked as expensive in recent versions, so nobody  
should be wedded to ctrl+R!

Comments?

Peter