Re: [Evolution] Smart Completion Less Convenient

[Andrew Cowie <andrew operationaldynamics com au>]

On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 11:50, Chris Toshok wrote:
> > A more intuitive response is to press comma ',' to immediately begin
> > entering another recipient.
>
> This doesn't work, though.  Try using the above scheme when completing
> against the "Ximian, Inc." card in the default Contacts folder.  <Enter>
> is pretty much the only character on the keyboard that can't exist in
> any of the fields over which we query.

That sucks.

Solution 1) "Ximian, Inc" could change it's name.

Solution 2) Switch to using ';' Semicolons as separator like Outlook
uses. Ewwww. Not traditional Unix MUA behaviour. Yuk.

Solution 3) Change the search algorithm to ignore ',' Commas in the
fields it is searching against. Frankly, I don't think I'd ever search
against "Ximian, Inc" as opposed to "Ximian, Some guys I know" and
expect to care whether or not the ',' is there.

I suppose there is the "lastname, firstname" search case to consider.
Does Evolution do that? If not, then 3 is a viable option.

Otherwise, I'm all for Ximian changing it's name again. :)

Andrew