Re: Define groups of recipients

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> > Ok, that would be the last resort.  I had hoped for a nice solution in
>> > Emacs.
>>
>> But what would a "nice solution" look like? I suppose you could always
>> write your own completion-at-point function.
>
> That I could somewhere create a record for a group consisting of a name,
> a mail alias, and a number of Email addresses.  Writing my own
> completion-at-point function doesn't count as "nice".

No, I suppose not. You can also build mail abbrevs without too much
trouble using the function `define-mail-abbrev', that might be your
easiest entry-point. I'm still not quite clear on what your ideal
workflow would be here.

>> > BTW, anyone knowing why BBDB comes with a manual that looks like
>>
>> BBDB's lack of manual is half of why I ended up writing EBDB (only
>> partly joking).
>
> Ok, I may be switching because of the manual (also only partly joking).
> No, I wanted to have a look at it for a longer time anyway ;-)

I've been sort of tracking the vCard RFC when considering what record
classes to add, and vCard does have the concept of a "group" record,
which is just a collection of other records. This wouldn't save you any
work, however, since you'd still need to create the person records, and
add them to the group. I suppose I could allow adding mail fields
instead of "people" to the group, but it still seems roundabout.

Eric