Re: Address Look-up

[Pawel Salek <pawsa TheoChem kth se>]

On 2000-07-05 09:04 Berend De Schouwer wrote:
> If its like pine, I would type 'Pawel' + enter, and Balsa would
expand
> that to "Pawel Salek <pawsa@TheoChem.kth.se>", and move the acive box
to
> Subject:.  That is 6 keystrokes.
>     If I want to send mail to multiple people, I type "Pawel,John"
> + enter.  This results to Balsa expanding both names, and moving to
> the subject line.
>     If I have more than one match for "Pawel" (say "Pawel", and
> "Pawel's old e-mail") it should pop up the addressbook, and let me
choose.
>     If its like you describe above, its <modifier-A> to get the
> addressbook, "Pawel" to search for Pawel, <modifier-right> to make it
active,
> <modifier-enter> to add it in.  This is 8 keystrokes, and requires me
to
> wait for a pop-up box.  This wait is about 0.1 seconds, but I still
need
> to wait between keystrokes.

This sounds convincing, I agree.

>  My eyes then need to focus on a new part on
> the screen.  I find it irritating, but it won't result in unresolved
> aliases.  Can't we do both?

I think we, _we_ can do _both_ (and few more things, too). I think think
_I_ have really time now (i.e. in July) to implement at most one of
them. Do you get the message? :-)

I wish day had 36 hours :-).

/Pawel
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Pawel Salek (pawsa@theochem.kth.se) http://www.theochem.kth.se/~pawsa/