From kde-pim  Sun Nov 06 22:25:19 2011
From: Ingo =?iso-8859-15?q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:25:19 +0000
To: kde-pim
Subject: Re: [Kde-pim] KMail addressee completion
Message-Id: <201111062325.20102 () thufir ! ingo-kloecker ! de>
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On Thursday 03 November 2011, Milian Wolff wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 November 2011 22:01:10 Ingo =3D?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kl=3DF6cker?=
=3D=20
wrote:
> > On Monday 31 October 2011, Milian Wolff wrote:
> > > Also note, that apparently the current code matches only
> > > beginning from a word boundary. E.g.:
> > >=20
> > >=20
> > > fooasdf@barqwer.com
> > >=20
> > > -> "foo" "bar" all match, but neither asdf nor qwer or anything
> > > else after the beginning of a word.
> >=20
> > AFAIK this is by design. The disadvantages of arbitrary substring
> > matches (e.g. a long list of mostly irrelevant matches) outnumber
> > the advantages. Many KDE applications behave similarly. If you
> > want to use substring matching with KLineEdit then you have to
> > press Ctrl+E. This also used to work in KMail1's addressee line
> > edit.
>=20
> Wow, so much for discoverability ;-)  Can I change this setting
> somewhere?

I don't know. I didn't find it in the standard shortcuts. So it's=20
probably hardcoded into KLineEdit.


> Esp. since if I hit CTRL+E and type some more chars to
> narrow the result list, I have to hit CTRL+E again to activate
> subpattern matching again.
>=20
> One suggestion to improve the situation imo would be to copy the
> behavior we use in KDevelop's QuickOpen: Always do substring
> matches, but show the results sorted. I.e.:
>=20
> - If a full word is matched, prefer that item
> - if a word is matched at the start, prefer that item (if you really
> need that, I see no advantage of that)
> - ...

Well, I guess that would be okay for me. You know how it works: If you=20
don't do it then nobody will. And: He who does the work decides. ;-)


Regards,
Ingo

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