Subject: Suggestion: Completion for Address Book Names/Fcc Folder Names

From: Brad <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 13:38:01 +0100

I guess I don't really have to add much more after that Subject line,
do I? ;) Anyway... 

	My folder names are the same as the names in my address book, so,
when saving a mail, I use something like "ni<TAB>". And so, when entering a
nickname in the To/Cc/Bcc field of a message header, I often try to do the
same thing... But just end up with, for example, [email-masked]. 

	So anyway, I just think that adding tab completion for that (and
maybe also for Fcc folder names) would be neat and very useful. 

	Thanks to anyone who listens... :)

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 17:20:32 -0700 (PDT)

> 	I guess I don't really have to add much more after that Subject line,

The search for a nickname in the address books is done using a hash table
in order to obtain sufficient speed.  The hash value depends on all of
the characters in the nickname, so it is difficult to do completion with
only some of the name.  So probably it won't be implemented soon.  Sorry.

Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle