Re: [Evolution] Tab complete email addresses?

[Miles Lane <miles megapathdsl net>]

On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 10:06, Dan Winship wrote:
> > However, when there's only one selection, I find myself wanting to tab
> > complete to pick it rather than arrow down. Is this already possible?
>
> No, tab means "go to the next field". People have been talking about
> adding some nicer shortcuts for completion though. One suggestion I like
> is that if you get down to only one possible completion, and you type
> comma, it completes before entering the comma, or if you type TAB, it
> completes before moving to the next field. So you could type "fred,
> wilma TAB TAB subject here TAB body here". (Two tabs in a row in the
> middle because you're skipping over the 'cc' field.)

Well, in some mailers, if there is only one completion than that
completion is inserted immediately, without the user needing
to hit an additional key (like TAB).  The, as long as additional
keystrokes match the completion selection, the completion stays
in the address field.  As soon as a character no longer matches
that one completion, the characters following the current 
cursor position are then cleared.

        Miles