Use "Nickname" field for email autocomplete

[dmandell]

The "Nickname" field in the address book doesn't do anything right now, I assume that it's supposed to be usable for email address autocomplete when composing an email.

To reproduce:

Add a nickname to one of your address book contacts, save.
Compose a new email.
Type the nickname for your contact, note that autocomplete doesn't do anything.

[Seanster]

This will add the nickname field to autocomplete:

/program/steps/mail/autocomplete.inc
line 65

change:

if ($result = $abook->search(array('email','name'), $search, $mode, true, true, 'email')) {

to:

if ($result = $abook->search(array('email','name','nickname'), $search, $mode, true, true, 'email')) {

This only changes the search, it doesn't cause the nickname to be shown anywhere it didn't before.

The attached patch file adds this autocomplete ability and also adds an extra column in the address book list to show the nicknames, if any.

rcube.svn2011-11-18.nickname.patch

I also have a similar patch for the compose_addressbook plugin (but only for "full" book mode).

It's available here:

​http://www.seanster.com/rcube/

[Seanster]

autocomplete and include nicknames in address book list

[kgc]

This issue has come up for us too. Any reason why this patch hasn't been included? Would the devs like to see additional functionality added before committing it?