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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] Kolab bugfix: Allow completion of names even if last
From:       Ingo =?utf-8?q?Kl=C3=B6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-08-11 23:24:21
Message-ID: 200408120124.59710 () erwin ! ingo-kloecker ! de
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On Thursday 12 August 2004 00:26, David Faure wrote:
> On Thursday 12 August 2004 00:15, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > Instead of adding duplicates to the completion list the code which
> > looks for valid completions should be changed to not only find
> > addresses that start with the already entered characters, but to
> > find addresses which contain a word which starts with the
> > characters. Then we would complete by first name, by last name, by
> > email address and by the domain part of email addresses.
>
> This would be horribly slow though - KCompletion is designed around
> "completing entries _starting_ with the typed string", it has a tree
> of characters to make that fast. Not using that would mean doing the
> matching by hand, by comparing those 4 versions of each entry (first
> name, last name, etc.) with the typed string...

There's not really a problem with making completion by begin of word 
instead of by begin of line as fast. Only the calculation of the tree 
would be a bit slower.

Regards,
Ingo

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