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

[Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org>]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> The other option is to set (the variable) `ebdb-complete-mail' to the
> symbol 'capf. This will put a pre-defined list of "name <email>" strings
> into the completion-at-point-functions hook. Then TAB should offer those
> strings for completion, using corfu.
>
> The search is less powerful because it doesn't use a dynamic lookup, but
> it should still be fine to use.
>
> Let me know how that works!

Thanks for your response.  I added

  (setq ebdb-complete-mail 'capf)

to my .gnus, but I think this is not enough.  IIUC, I need:

  (setq ebdb-complete-mail 'capf)
  (require 'ebdb-message)

Then this is the value of `completion-at-point-functions' in this
buffer:

  completion-at-point-functions is a variable defined in ‘minibuffer.el’.

  Its value is
  (ebdb-mail-dwim-completion-at-point-function
   message-completion-function t)

Now I hit 'C-c C-f C-t' and enter ', TAB' after your "name <email>" and
get some space added with "No match" in the echo area.  So it doesn't
seem to work.  Or am I missing something?

And while we're at it: I suggest to autoload the functions
`ebdb-insinuate-message', `ebdb-insinuate-mail' and
`ebdb-message-auto-update' and let users add things like:

  (add-hook 'message-mode-hook #'ebdb-insinuate-message)
  (add-hook 'message-send-hook #'ebdb-message-auto-update)

  (add-hook 'mail-setup-hook #'ebdb-insinuate-mail)
  (add-hook 'mail-send-hook #'ebdb-message-auto-update)

to their init file, depending on what they're using.

Best, Arash