Jamie Zawinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> just wrote:
Well, depending on your setting of bbdb-completion-type,
"fiqley" could/should be ambiguous. If you type the @ then
you're asking for a particular address. If you type "fiqley."
then you're asking for a different particular address.
Hmmm ... good example of a factor I hadn't thought of.
> Personally, I'd like it to complete to "Person Name <netaddr>" form
> all the time. Is there some deep reason it does not? For example,
> would something else break? If not deep, how about shallow (such as
> someone's personal preferences)?
it's because I think that
Fiqley Snoplegrunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
looks silly. The whole name is in there twice.
True enough in this case, but a bit deeper than the code actually
looks - it might have been "My Old Pal Fiqley <fiqley.snoplegrunt...>"
I don't *think* the code is checking that closely, is it?
But anyway, this stuff doesn't have anything to do with
completion - the presentation of the thing in the buffer is in
bbdb-dwim-net-address, not bbdb-completion-predicate.
Oh, yes, you're right (of course).
OK, I grok that the facility to do careful matching (with
bbdb-completion-type) would be compromised by the kind of
equivalencing I have in mind ('course, now, if bbdb-completion-type is
left defaulted to nil, that might be another matter ...). And the
duplication of the name is slurpy all right. I'll just M-DEL back to
"fiqley" and get what I want.
Thanks for the insight.
Jack Repenning M/S 1-875 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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