Re: [PATCH 5/5] completion: complete addresses in from:/to: search terms

Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] completion: complete addresses in from:/to: search terms

Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 08:37:18 +0100

To: Tomi Ollila, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Jani Nikula

On Tue, 24 Feb 2015, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27 2015, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:
>
>> Use the new notmuch address command to do completion for addresses in
>> from: and to:.
>>
>> ---
>>
>> This patch is more of an RFC. The to: completion is sloooow because
>> typically there are more matches to begin with, and then producing the
>> results requires reading the messages. Maybe it would be better to use
>> the same mechanism as from: for both, even if it's not accurate for
>> to:?
>
> Shameless marketing puff: Imagine how fast would it would be to use
> nottoomuch-addresses -- the completions are there before one
> sees TAB KeyRelease event... ;)

Like this? ;)

$ notmuch search to:tomiTABnottoomuch-addresses.sh: command not found

I like the completion to be self contained.

BR,
Jani.

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