From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/63155 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark Plaksin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general,gmane.emacs.bbdb.user Subject: Re: Why I've stopped using ecomplete Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 10:36:33 -0400 Message-ID: References: <9eaca3gvlc.fsf@doze.jochen-kuepper.de> <17493.5073.904615.290942@klortho.waider.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1146667108 11419 80.91.229.2 (3 May 2006 14:38:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 14:38:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net Original-X-From: ding-owner+m11682@lists.math.uh.edu Wed May 03 16:38:23 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FbIUM-0004Mm-M2 for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 16:38:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1FbIUI-0006n1-00; Wed, 03 May 2006 09:37:59 -0500 Original-Received: from nas01.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.39]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1FbITt-0006mt-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 03 May 2006 09:37:33 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas01.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FbITp-0007gE-Cp for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 03 May 2006 09:37:33 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1FbITo-0004i4-00 for ; Wed, 03 May 2006 16:37:28 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FbITM-00047d-Qx for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 16:37:01 +0200 Original-Received: from stone.tss.usg.edu ([168.24.82.77]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 03 May 2006 16:37:00 +0200 Original-Received: from happy by stone.tss.usg.edu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 03 May 2006 16:37:00 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: stone.tss.usg.edu User-Agent: Gnus/5.110005 (No Gnus v0.5) Emacs/22.0.51 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Dfx1SWxqPuTAFvLoCmiI3NAmo/A= X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:63155 gmane.emacs.bbdb.user:1814 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Ronan Waide writes: > >> Why not write a hook into bbdb instead of depending on it? If BBDB >> exists, it gets used by ecomplete, if not, no damage. > > Well, I really, really want a nice completion mode for Emacs. I think > it's embarrassing that Emacs users don't have completion like you find > in any other mailers, like Thunderbird or Eudora. You've probably seen it already but in case you haven't, completion-ui.el was just announced on gnu.emacs.sources. I haven't tried it but it sounds good: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CompletionUI