Re: Automatic address completion and general address handling

[Peter Bloomfield <peterbloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 02/18/2006 01:57:05 PM, Mark Flacy wrote:
> On 2006.02.18 08:17, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Escape's fine with me; escape-escape matches some shell completion  
> modes, for that matter.

Good!

> As far as address books go, wouldn't it be better to have the  
> "expensive" boolean configurable?  LDAP support has been part of  
> Balsa for a while now, and I'm the first person to snivel about the  
> delay in the mailing list.  From that, you would think most LDAP  
> users are able to have their queries handled in an acceptable amount  
> of time with the current setup. (Or acceptable to them, anyways.)

Yes, that would make sense.  I might even try marking my vCard address  
book expensive, and use Escape to see completions instead of having the  
popup there on each keystroke.  The address book properties dialog  
could have three radio-buttons:

Complete addresses:
[x] automatically
[ ] when I type the Escape key
[ ] never

defaulting to "automatically" for local address books and "when I  
type..." for LDAP.

Peter

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