Comment 40 for bug 956618

(In reply to Brian Hauer from comment #21)
> Expanding on the example above, assume you have nicknames "wil", "jan", and
> "bob". You should be able to type "wil,jan,bob" to quickly address a mail
> to all three. When focus leaves the field, the parser should expand each
> based on a nickname match, resulting in three entries in the addressing user
> interface.
> [snip]
> I consider nicknames to be a special case of address resolution. As the
> proponents above have said, at the least nicknames should be treated as the
> #1 priority in finding a matching address. But I would recommend going
> further: namely, nickname resolution should occur -after- the
> comma-delimited parsing of the user's input occurs.

+1 to all of comment 21 and the underlying understanding of nicks as 1 on 1 aliases. However, focus in this bug is on giving resolved (single) nicks precedence in autocomplete results. So resolving multiple comma-separated nicks is probably beyond the scope of this bug. More reminiscent of (but perhaps not the same as) bug 295428. I'd recommend filing a separate bug for resolving a comma-separated list of nicknames.