David T-G [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> Shao --
>
> ...and then Shao Zhang said...
> %
> % alias me [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shao Zhang)
> % alias me [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shao Zhang)
> % alias me [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shao Zhang)
>
> I don't get it... What would this serve? When you type "me" as your
> alias, how is mutt supposed to know which one you mean?
I would like mutt to give me the alias menu when there exists
duplicate entries, same effect of pressing TAB.
> From your
> further detail below, I assume that you're not asking how to create a
> single alias "me" which points to all three addresses, right?
>
>
> %
> % alias me1
> % alias me2
> % alias me3
> %
> % This is still fine, coz they are referring to the same person.
> % But if I have two different "daniel", I really don't want to
> % make them "daniel1", and "daniel2", so that each time when I
> % have a new friend called daniel, I will have to search through
> % and assign a number to it...
>
> Well, you could find some other way to make the aliases unique, like
> using a firstname.lastname approach or maybe daniel.isp since the ISP is
> very likely to be different...
It is no big deal, I can still live with it. It is just that I
think it is better for mutt not to overwrite those duplicate
entries.
In addition, I think mutt should have a better support of
address book, such as searching the first name, last name and so
on.
shao.
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