Address completion a la pine.

Address completion a la pine.

[Matthieu Moy]

Hello. 

Some friends  of mine  are using pine  as a  mailer, and there  is one
functionality I can't reproduce with Gnus :

Whenever they type  a user name in the To:  field, pine "finger"s this
user, and completes his email address. This is the same kind of things
as bbdb-complete-name,  but the address does  not have to  be in there
address   book.    It's   very    usefull   when   everybody    in   a
company/school/laboratory have an account on the same machine as you. 

So, is it possible with Gnus ?

-- 
Matthieu

Re: Address completion a la pine.

[Martin Thornquist]

[ Matthieu Moy ]

> Whenever they type  a user name in the To:  field, pine "finger"s this
> user, and completes his email address. This is the same kind of things
> as bbdb-complete-name,  but the address does  not have to  be in there
> address   book.    It's   very    usefull   when   everybody    in   a
> company/school/laboratory have an account on the same machine as you. 

I use this (its origins are shrouded in the mists of time, I inherited
it together with my first .gnus):

(defun complete-email-addr () 
  (interactive)
    (let* ((wbeg (and (forward-word -1) (point)))
	   (wend (and (forward-word  1) (point)))
	   (unam (and wbeg wend
		      (buffer-substring wbeg wend)))
	   (name (and unam
		      (user-full-name unam))))
      (if (not name)
	  (error "No such user: %s" unam)
	(save-excursion
	  (goto-char wbeg)
	  (insert name " <"))
	(insert "@ifi.uio.no>"))))

Obviously, you want to frob the last line.

> So, is it possible with Gnus ?

This is Emacs -- ask not if, but how! :-)


Martin
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Re: Address completion a la pine.

[D. Goel]

> I use this (its origins are shrouded in the mists of time, I inherited
> it together with my first .gnus):

[...]

> 
> This is Emacs -- ask not if, but how! :-)



Martin

 i think that this solution still does not mimic pine's
behavior.   Pine can complete based on only partial user-name whereas
this needs the full user-name. 

(BTW, i liked a lot the user-full-name stuff you posted, and have
added this functionality to a file of mine, bbdbrc.el which i will
soon post to g.e.s)


Have a good day,

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