Address Completion
Tomi Ollila
tomi.ollila at iki.fi
Mon Apr 10 11:38:12 PDT 2017
On Mon, Apr 10 2017, Jörg Volbers <joerg at joergvolbers.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> If I press <TAB> looking for an address while writing mail,
> vanilla notmuch offers me one preselected candidate. Since I use
> ivy-mode, this canididate narrows down the list of all candidates,
> forcing me to delete the initial input (C-a C-k) before I can
> select among this list.
Do you use 'internal completion or separate command to find completions ?
If internal, the first choice would be to install `company' package from
ELPA (I don't know how it works with separate command -- which I use,
with selection-menu). Company-mode provides nice popup where to choose
completions from.
If that is not an option, someone(tm) could provide a patch which, based
on (fboundp 'ivy-read) uses either ivy-read or completing-read, with their
specific options for completion (what I saw about ivy-read that looks
pretty good). OTOH, if someone(tm) can show (completing-read ...) which
works good as is, or when wrapped with ivy, such patches might just be
tolerated(tm).
FWIW, I've used the following code in my notmuch setup like forever...:
require 'selection-menu)
(setq notmuch-address-selection-function
(lambda (prompt collection initial-input)
(selection-menu "Send To:" (cons initial-input collection) t)))
Tomi
> I currently override this behavior by setting
> notmuch-address-selection-function to my own function:
>
> (defun jv-notmuch--address-selection (prompt collection
> initial-input)
> (completing-read
> prompt collection nil nil orig 'notmuch-address-history))
> (setq notmuch-address-selection-function
> #'jv-notmuch--address-selection)
>
> This works as intended.
>
> Now my question: Is this something specific to ivy-mode, and would
> it be possible to add an option which simulates the above behavior
> (basically, using the pre-set variable 'orig' instead of
> (car-options) in notmuch-address-expand-name), so that I do not
> need to insert my own function which adds no functionality?
>
> Thanks (also for CC me via PM)
>
> And by the way, notmuch really is great, thank you for this
> software!
>
> Jörg
>
>
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