Re: ecomplete.el

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 15 2007, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>
>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>>> It's very different.  It does completion in a manner similar to
>>> Firefox.  That is, it displays all the possible matches for the text
>>> you've entered in the minibuffer (ranked based on what you've used
>>> most and most recently), and allows you to choose between these.
>>
>> How do I use it?  I've seen that ecomplete has been used by message
>> mode to auto-complete e-mail addresses for some time now, but I have
>> no idea how to select one of the matches, or cycle through them.
>> There doesn't seem to be any documentation, and the source didn't do
>> it for me.
>
> I couldn't figure out neither how to select a match.

,----[ (info "(message)Mail Aliases") ]
| The `message-mail-alias-type' variable controls what type of mail alias
| expansion to use.  Currently two forms are supported: `mailabbrev' and
| `ecomplete'.  If this variable is `nil', no mail alias expansion will
| be performed.

[...]

|    If you're using `ecomplete', all addresses from `To' and `Cc'
| headers will automatically be put into the `~/.ecompleterc' file.  When
| you enter text in the `To' and `Cc' headers, `ecomplete' will check out
| the values stored there and "electrically" say what completions are
| possible.  To choose one of these completions, use the `M-n' command to
| move down to the list.  Use `M-n' and `M-p' to move down and up the
| list, and `RET' to choose a completion.
`----


Works like a charm for me.

Bye,
Tassilo