3.6 Address Completion(1)

As far as Address Completion (2) is concerned, there is an assumption: user names or short names of expansion rules, personal information and learned addresses are unique.

For example, consider the following configuration of expansion rules:

pooh:           winnie-the-pooh@example.net

When you are in a header in Draft mode, working within an address field, after typing one or more characters, you can complete a short name for an address by pressing the ‘TAB’ key.

To: piglet@example.org, 
        po‘TAB’

If you press the ‘TAB’ key, "pooh" is completed (unless other candidates exist).

To: piglet@example.org, 
        pooh‘TAB’

One more press of the ‘TAB’ key expands the name to "winnie-the-pooh@example.net".

To: piglet@example.org, 
        winnie-the-pooh@example.net

A string ending with "@" is explicitly expanded. Please pay attention to the following case where similar short names are defined.

pooh:           winnie-the-pooh@example.net
pooh-pooh:      pooh-pooh@example.org

It is obvious that "pooh-" is completed to "pooh-pooh". But if you input "pooh", Mew cannot tell whether it should be expanded or completed to "pooh-pooh". Thus, if you want to explicitly complete "pooh" to "winnie-the-pooh@example.net", insert ‘@’ and type ‘TAB’.

To: pooh@‘TAB’

Explicit expansion can be accomplished by ‘M-C-e’ instead of insertion of ‘@’.

The explanation above can be applied to learned addresses when sending.

The format of personal information means that each subsequently generated address will replace the former one. For example:

kazu    kazu@example.org, kazu@example.net    Kazu-kun  "Kazuhiko Yamamoto"

Let's watch how it will be converted:

To: kazu‘TAB’

Typing ‘TAB’ after "kazu" generates "kazu@example.org".

To: kazu@example.org‘TAB’

Typing ‘TAB’ after "kazu@example.org" brings about "kazu@example.net".

To: kazu@example.net‘TAB’

Then "kazu@example.org" will appear again if you type ‘TAB’ after "kazu@example.net". In this way, each address is replaced one by one.

After deciding an address, you can add its full name.

To: kazu@example.org‘M-TAB’

Like this, typing ‘M-TAB’ replace the address with the following format.

To: Kazuhiko Yamamoto <kazu@example.org>

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