450279 - Autocomplete trying to complete already complete nicknames

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 325458

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[aj448]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16
Build Identifier: version 1.5.0.14 (20071210)

Autocomplete tries to complete nicknames that are already complete, thus filling in th ewrong address.

For instance, say in my address book I have three e-mail addresses for Charmaine:

Nickname      E-mail
char =        [e-mail]
char2 =       [e-mail]
char3 =       [e-mail]

In the message composition window, I type "char" into the address field and am presented with a list of addresses, with the top one highlighted.

[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

The top choice is the e-mail address associated with the nickname "char2".  This is incorrect.

Autocomplete should complete to the complete word before trying to complete to anything else.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Set multiple addresses with nicknames char, char2, char3 in addressbook
2.  Open new mail message.
3.  Type in nickname "char".
4.  Note incorrect autocomplete.
Actual Results:  
Say in my address book I have three e-mail addresses for Charmaine:

Nickname      E-mail
char =        [e-mail]
char2 =       [e-mail]
char3 =       [e-mail]

In the message composition window, I type "char" into the address field and am presented with a list of addresses, with the top one highlighted.

[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

The top choice is the e-mail address associated with the nickname "char2".  This is incorrect.

Autocomplete should complete to the complete word before trying to complete to anything else.

Expected Results:  
Type into address field:  char
Autocomplete completes address to address associated with nickname "char" and NOT to nickname associated with "char2" or "char3": [e-mail]

Comment 1

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

pretty sure this is a duplicate of bug 325458