Re: [Evolution] Smart Completion Less Convenient

[Chris Toshok <toshok ximian com>]

Not to worry, noone at Ximian is saying the completion stuff doesn't
needs a lot of work yet.  The biggest thing we were trying for in the
1.2 cycle was to get multiple completion sources working, and working
well.  I'm nowhere near satisfied with completion in 1.2.x (even
considering all the gains we made over 1.0.8 in terms of performance),
and there will be lots more work done on it in the future :)

Chris

On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 17:30, Andrew Cowie wrote:
> 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
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