Re: In-buffer completion of EBDB mail addresses with corfu

[Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org>]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> I'm not completely clear what you're doing here -- you enter a full name
> and email, then a comma, then TAB? EBDB will only look back as far as
> the nearest comma for completion. In this case it will send in a blank
> string, which should offer all emails in your EBDB database for
> completion. 

I think we can skip this (see below).

> Have you created any records?

Yes.

> Are there strings in `ebdb-dwim-completion-cache'?

Thanks, this is it.  It was nil.  If I do `M-x ebdb RET RET' to see my
records and then hit 'q', `ebdb-dwim-completion-cache' seems to get
populated and then hitting TAB in the header in Message mode offers
in-buffer completion.  Is there a way to automate the setting of
`ebdb-dwim-completion-cache'?

> That's not a bad idea. Having them `require' libraries to activate
> behavior isn't very Emacsy.

Agreed.  And that was the reason I made that suggestion.

> That would be a pretty annoying change for existing users, though...

Are these two approaches mutually exclusive?  Users who want to
`require' it can still do it, and others can load the package lazily if
the autoload cookies are added.  Or am I missing something?

Best, Arash