sup talk - Nov 2007 - Feature requests for more Googlish behaviour

I know - feature requests are easy to make but hopefully these will be helpful:

* Google-style contact autocompletion: typing a contact''s name, or
part thereof, should provide autocomplete suggestions which can be
chosen before or after composing the message body.
* Undo button: since I''m still learning the keyboard commands (and, I
think, because they''re still in flux) an undo button would be useful
so I can un-tag an email mistakenly tagged as spam.

-- 
Tim Vaughan
07725749263

On 6.11.2007, Tim Vaughan wrote:
> * Google-style contact autocompletion: typing a contact''s name, or
> part thereof, should provide autocomplete suggestions which can be
> chosen before or after composing the message body.
Try pressing tab when you type a contact. It should give you options
from your contacts list. The only oddness is that now sup doesnt
auto-add contacts that have no name (ie only an addresS) some contacts
wont work. So if you want a contact to be auto-completable you may
need to add it manually with a name/alias.

Marcus

Excerpts from Marcus Williams''s message of Tue Nov 06 15:10:12 +0100
2007:
> On 6.11.2007, Tim Vaughan wrote:
> > * Google-style contact autocompletion: typing a contact''s
name, or
> > part thereof, should provide autocomplete suggestions which can be
> > chosen before or after composing the message body.
> 
> Try pressing tab when you type a contact. It should give you options
> from your contacts list. The only oddness is that now sup doesnt
> auto-add contacts that have no name (ie only an addresS) some contacts
> wont work. So if you want a contact to be auto-completable you may
> need to add it manually with a name/alias.
Regarding autocomplete, I have problems when autocompleting contacts whose name
is something like
"Doe, John". Maybe somebody is seeing similar issues?

The name is autocompleted correctly, but the email is sent to two addresses: 
doe at smtphost (which doesn''t arrive) and to john.doe at ... (which
arrives
correctly). Has anyone seen something similar?

 -eyal

Excerpts from Eyal Oren''s message of Tue Nov 06 06:19:29 -0800
2007:
> Regarding autocomplete, I have problems when autocompleting contacts
> whose name is something like "Doe, John". Maybe somebody is
seeing
> similar issues?
> 
> The name is autocompleted correctly, but the email is sent to two
> addresses: doe at smtphost (which doesn''t arrive) and to john.doe
at ...
> (which arrives correctly). Has anyone seen something similar?
I think this should be fixed in SVN. (By, of course, writing my own
55-line state machine to parse sequences of email addresses. Sigh.)

The downside is that names with commas like "Doe, John" now require
double-quotes in order to complete. 

-- 
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>

Excerpts from Tim Vaughan''s message of Tue Nov 06 05:52:27 -0800
2007:
> * Google-style contact autocompletion: typing a contact''s name, or
> part thereof, should provide autocomplete suggestions which can be
> chosen before or after composing the message body.
As Marcus points out, Sup has tab completion. Only does prefix matches,
but it''s the same basic functionality.
> * Undo button: since I''m still learning the keyboard commands
(and, I
> think, because they''re still in flux) an undo button would be
useful
> so I can un-tag an email mistakenly tagged as spam.
Yes, this has been on the todo list for quite some time. One day!
Currently you can "undo everything since I last pressed the $ key" by
hitting @.

-- 
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>