Re: [ANNOUNCE] mailaprop: modern popup-style autofill for email addresses

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com> writes:

> It seems like ecomplete does something at least similar to what
> mailaprop does.  The main questions I have are:
>
> 1) Is there a way to load in existing email history?  If I knew the
> format of the .ecompletrc file, maybe I could make mailaprop.py
> generate it.  Personally, with a million email messages' worth of
> legacy data, it seems a pity to start collecting addresses from
> scratch now :-).

The format is like this:

((mail
 ("larsi@gnus.org" 38154 1516109510 "Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>")
 ("kfogel@red-bean.com" 10 1516065455 "Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>")
 ...
 ))

Which is email address/times used/last time used/full name.

> 2) Does it prioritize the completion list according to some scoring
> algorithm, so that the most likely candidates are keystrokewise
> closest?

It only prioritises by the number of times the address has been used...
Hm...  I think I had meant to also make it prioritise based on recency,
but I apparently didn't.  But that can be tweaked, of course.

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