3.7 Address Completion(2)

As far as Address Completion(2) is concerned, for learned addresses when sending, the entire addresses are completion targets. For expansion rules in the address book, short names are completion targets and unique short names are expanded to corresponding addresses. For personal information in the address book, short names are completion targets and unique short names are expanded to their first addresses.

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 or a learned address by pressing the ‘TAB’ key.

Suppose that kazu@example.org is already learned.

To: ka‘TAB’

When you type some characters and press ‘TAB’, its address is completed:

To: kazu@example.org

Also suppose that "kazunori@example.jp" is learned. To expand a user name to "kazu@example.org", you should input "kazu@". To convert it to "kazunori@example.jp", you need to input "kazun".

For expansion rules and personal information, ‘TAB’ completes short names first. You can expand a unique short name to corresponding address with ‘TAB’.

For example, consider the following configuration of expansion rules:

pooh:           winnie-the-pooh@example.net

Let's complete "pooh":

To: po‘TAB’

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

To: pooh‘TAB’

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

To: winnie-the-pooh@example.net

A problem occurs when a short name is not unique. Consider the following example:

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", type ‘M-C-e’. (There is no way to accomplish this with ‘TAB’.)

To: pooh‘M-C-e’

This example is explicitly expanded as follows:

To: winnie-the-pooh@example.net

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