Re: Why I've stopped using ecomplete

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Steve Youngs <steve@sxemacs.org> writes:

> I had it enabled for a week or thereabouts and in that time it
> collected 13 addresses.  Of that 13, 3 were my own address for testing
> the thing, another 7 were from mailing lists and so useless as
> gnus-parameters takes care of those.  That left 3 possibly useful
> ones.  Well, not, that useful, these 3 were already in my BBDB. :-)

It currently grabs the "to", "cc", "from" and "reply-to" headers.
I could add more...

> The only thing I ever saw ecomplete do was to display the first match
> in the echo area.  I could not find a way to make it either cycle or
> display other matches.  And I could not find a way to make it put
> anything in the To: header for me.  Is it supposed to?  I would have
> thought so.

It works better in Emacs.  :-)  It's supposed to display the first ten
most likely matches, all pretty and stuff.  Is there a way to display
multi-line echo area strings in XEmacs?

> But what really killed it for me... was that enabling ecomplete
> disables abbrev-mode in message-mode.  Man, I can't live without my
> abbrevs. :-)

You can now have both ecomplete and abbrevs in
`message-mail-alias-type'. 

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen