RE: [Evolution] "Why I hate Outlook"

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jamie Zawinski [mailto:jwz jwz org]
> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 8:03 PM
> To: evolution helixcode com
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] "Why I hate Outlook"
>
> Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > To: John <jsk29 cornell edu>; evolution helixcode com
>
> Evil semicolon.  Evil.
>
> Completion is great, but completion-by-default is not so great.
> It's really nice to have completions displayed automatically as
> soon as they are available, but you should have to take some explicit
> action to accept a completion, like hitting tab.  I think the emacs
> completion mechanism is near perfect -- the only thing 
> missing is having
> completions displayed at all times (or, say, when there are fewer than
> 20 or something like that.)
>
> I think that either showing dimmed-out-text-to-the-right-of-the-I-beam
> or showing a drop-down-list-that-auto-updates-and-that-you-don't-have-
> to-explicitly-dismiss are both good ways of doing it.

For displaying completions, the Windows Netscape 4 "address" completions
really appeal to me much more than the other that I've used, especially
better than the drop-down garbage that MSIE5 (4?) implements.  Oops, can I
admit that I use those on MS Win platforms here?  
        Greg