234422 - Autocomplete should match all parts of strings, not just beginning

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 558931

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[Stefan Eskelid]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040210 Firefox/0.8

As it is now, autocomplete always start from the beginning of the previously
typed addresses. That means that if you don't remember the start of an address,
only parts of it or the end ("I know it was something like '...mscott@...'"),
you will not be able to utilize the autocomplete feature.

If you have lets say '[e-mail]' and '[e-mail]' stored and
you type 'zilla' in the location field nothing will show. It would be nice if
all typed addresses containing 'zilla' would be shown, as is done when using
Find As You Type in Firefox.
The drop-down could display all results starting with the typed string and after
them the results containing the string.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Stefan Eskelid]

Sorry for the bugspam, but is there someway to remove the security risk thing
(sorry, didn't mean to check it)... this 'bug' has definately nothing to do with
security! :)

Comment 2

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

Removing security flag.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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