Re: emacs: How to tab-complete destination email addresses?

[Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net>]

On Wed, Sep 23 2020, George Kadianakis <desnacked@riseup.net> wrote:
> One way forward is to switch from using notmuch-address to using
> something like bbdb and manually curate my database (since bbdb offers
> this capability).
>
> But I think the right way would be to somehow introduce a bunch of
> heuristics in notmuch/emacs so that the right email address is chosen
> for each person. For example, if I tab-complete "Alice", I would like
> notmuch to give me the email address that Alice has used herself most
> frequently the past few times she contacted me.
>
> Perhaps there is something that does what I want already?
> If that's the case, I'd love to be pointed to a good solution!

I find the convenience of not having to maintain an address book to be a
huge win with the use of notmuch-address, so I'm generally fine to
filter through the offered addresses to find the one that I generally
recognize to be the most viable.  That said, an obvious improvement (as
you suggest) would be to order addresses based on most recent+frequent
use, so that the most recently used one shows up first.

The problem I have, though, is that for some reason that I don't
understand the interface can use To: address, or From: addresses, but
not both.  This is by far the most annoying thing to me, since in both
scenarios there will end up being missing addresses that I need that I
then have to go search for manually.  If the interface could be
configured to return most From: and To: address that would be a big
improvement imho.

jamie.