From: wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net (William Morgan)
Subject: [sup-talk] Contact Manager and fullname aliasing
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:56:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1195843961-sup-2106@south> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6205b42d0711220057l79ecc2ect6c4a29dc5efff4ef@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Pierre,
Excerpts from Pierre Baillet's message of Thu Nov 22 00:57:08 -0800 2007:
> I'd like to alter the way the ContactManager work so that it could be
> able to save contact which don't have an alias but for which the #name
> has been modified:
Sounds great.
> The problem is that the contact manager is not able to handle
> alias-less contacts and hence any modification to a Person during the
> run of Sup is never saved for unaliased contacts (I actually patched
> my sup to allow fullname modification before understanding that sup
> will never save these changes :p).
I think the best solution is to alter the contact manager such that it
can handle contacts without aliases. I think it currently stores
everything as a hash from alias to Person object, so you'll have to add
an array instead.
On the UI side, we can mimic Mutt-style alias prompts. Press 'l' and it
asks you for the person name (pre-filled with the name from the email),
and then asks you for the alias, allowing you to hit enter for none.
Something like that.
> Another idea would be to force all displays to use aliases instead of
> real names when displaying emails. This is probably simple to
> implement because there is no need to rework on the Contact Manager,
> but i still think that "full name" (this full name is used in TO:
> headers) and "alias" (this alias is only used internally) should be
> different
I agree that it's better that the two fields are different.
--
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-23 18:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-22 8:57 Pierre Baillet
2007-11-23 18:56 ` William Morgan [this message]
2007-11-24 18:38 ` Pierre Baillet
2007-12-21 18:23 ` William Morgan
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