Address completion in Emacs

[Lele Gaifax]

David Edmondson <dme at dme.org> writes:

> On Fri, Dec 12 2014, Lele Gaifax wrote:
>> Wouldn't it be more "correct" to pass the unchanged `options' list and
>> the "real" `orig' text as `initial-input' to the customizable function
>> instead?
>
> Would I then have to press TAB twice to get the first result?

No, why? The customizable `notmuch-address-selection-function' would be
free to pass (car options) as the initial-input of `completing-read', if
needed. When using `ido-completing-read', the first option is
pre-selected, so a RET confirms that.

>> I understand that it may be undesiderable to break existing
>> configurations by rectifying the arguments in that way, and in such case
>> could we change the `initial-input' argument name to better reflect the
>> fact that it actually contains one possible candidate instead?
>
> From the perspective of `notmuch-address-selection-function', it _is_
> the `initial-input', as that is what is presented to the user.

IMHO no, it's not: what it receives as `initial-input' is not what the
user actually wrote, but rather just the (somewhat arbitrary) first
candidate address found by `notmuch-address-command'.

thanks&bye, lele.
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