BBDB and the message buffer

BBDB and the message buffer

[Jim Burton]

Hi, I suppose this must be an FAQ bit I can't solve it. How do I bind
M-t to bbdb-complete-name in the message buffer? I found this example
online and added to my .gnus:

(add-hook 'gnus-startup-hook 'bbdb-insinuate-gnus) 
(setq mail-setup-hook 'bbdb-insinuate-sendmail)
(add-hook 'message-setup-hook 'bbdb-insinuate-message)
(defun bbdb-insinuate-message ()
  "Call this function to hook BBDB into the message package."
  (define-key message-mode-map "\M-\t" 'bbdb-complete-name))

;;;;;;;;;

But M-t is bound to aspell...help? (In case this makes any difference,
I'm starting a message with 'm').

I would also like point to be after the colon in the first line ("To:
<point>") -- how can I manage this?

Thanks,

Jim

Re: BBDB and the message buffer

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, Feb 11 2009, Jim Burton wrote:

> Hi, I suppose this must be an FAQ bit I can't solve it. How do I bind
> M-t to bbdb-complete-name in the message buffer? 

BBDB completion is already done via TAB, so why need a different
binding?

> I would also like point to be after the colon in the first line ("To:
> <point>") -- how can I manage this?

It is for me when I press `m'.

Bye, Reiner.
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Re: BBDB and the message buffer

[Jim Burton]

Reiner wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 11 2009, Jim Burton wrote:
> 
> > Hi, I suppose this must be an FAQ bit I can't solve it. How do I bind
> > M-t to bbdb-complete-name in the message buffer? 
> 
> BBDB completion is already done via TAB, so why need a different
> binding?
>
Hi Reiner, thanks for that...I thought you needed to set it up yourself.
 
> > I would also like point to be after the colon in the first line ("To:
> > <point>") -- how can I manage this?
> 
> It is for me when I press `m'.
> 
There was something fishy going on with message buffers, but it's
fixed. (The problem was this, that I pasted from somewhere:

;;save copies of sent mail
(setq gnus-message-archive-group
           '(concat "mail." (format-time-string "%Y-%m")))

which sounds nice but was giving this error whenever I opened a message
buffer: 

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument listp concat)
  gnus-inews-insert-archive-gcc()
  run-hooks(message-header-setup-hook)
  message-setup-1(((To . "") (Subject . "")) nil nil)
  message-setup(((To . "") (Subject . "")) nil nil nil nil)
  message-mail()
  gnus-group-mail(nil)
  call-interactively(gnus-group-mail nil nil)

> Bye, Reiner.

Thanks,

Jim

Re: BBDB and the message buffer

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, Feb 11 2009, Jim Burton wrote:

> There was something fishy going on with message buffers, but it's
> fixed. (The problem was this, that I pasted from somewhere:

I strongly suggest not to copy from "somewhere".

> ;;save copies of sent mail
> (setq gnus-message-archive-group
>            '(concat "mail." (format-time-string "%Y-%m")))
>
> which sounds nice but was giving this error whenever I opened a message
> buffer: 
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument listp concat)

The Gnus manual has lots of examples for `gnus-message-archive-group',
see (info "(gnus)Archived Messages"):

,----[ (info "(gnus)Archived Messages") ]
|    How about storing all news messages in one file, but storing all mail
| messages in one file per month:
| 
|      (setq gnus-message-archive-group
|            '((if (message-news-p)
|                  "misc-news"
|                (concat "mail." (format-time-string "%Y-%m")))))
`----

Bye, Reiner.
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       ,,,
      (o o)
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Re: BBDB and the message buffer

[Jim Burton]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> On Wed, Feb 11 2009, Jim Burton wrote:
>
>> There was something fishy going on with message buffers, but it's
>> fixed. (The problem was this, that I pasted from somewhere:
>
> I strongly suggest not to copy from "somewhere".
>

:-) I sometimes give this advice myself, now I just need to follow it. 

>> ;;save copies of sent mail
>> (setq gnus-message-archive-group
>>            '(concat "mail." (format-time-string "%Y-%m")))
>>
>> which sounds nice but was giving this error whenever I opened a message
>> buffer: 
>>
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument listp concat)
>
> The Gnus manual has lots of examples for `gnus-message-archive-group',
> see (info "(gnus)Archived Messages"):
>
> ,----[ (info "(gnus)Archived Messages") ]
> |    How about storing all news messages in one file, but storing all mail
> | messages in one file per month:
> | 
> |      (setq gnus-message-archive-group
> |            '((if (message-news-p)
> |                  "misc-news"
> |                (concat "mail." (format-time-string "%Y-%m")))))
> `----

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

Jim
>
> Bye, Reiner.
> -- 
>        ,,,
>       (o o)
> ---ooO-(_)-Ooo---  |  PGP key available  |  http://rsteib.home.pages.de/
>
>

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Re: BBDB and the message buffer

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>:

> I strongly suggest not to copy from "somewhere".

I've been doing that for 21 years.

How else would I ever get my emacs configured?

Re: BBDB and the message buffer

[Harry Putnam]

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

>>>>>> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>:
>
>> I strongly suggest not to copy from "somewhere".
>
> I've been doing that for 21 years.
>
> How else would I ever get my emacs configured?


hehe and ditto here... but I might add that many of mine were
performed on posts of yours (Reiner).   And thanks for all of that