From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67016 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Eglen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Small change to message-tab to allow completion of mail aliases Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:29:59 +0100 Message-ID: References: <84k5hb76k0.fsf@incoming.verizon.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212431626 10970 80.91.229.12 (2 Jun 2008 18:33:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 18:33:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, Stephen Eglen To: Dave Goldberg Original-X-From: ding-owner+M15487@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Jun 02 20:34:28 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K3ErO-0007Zr-5q for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:34:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1K3EqN-0002HQ-Hs; Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:33:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1K3EnJ-0002G1-Cg for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:30:09 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1K3EnD-0002Wy-AC for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:30:09 -0500 Original-Received: from ppsw-7.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.137]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1K3EnT-0004ke-00 for ; Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:30:19 +0200 X-Cam-SpamDetails: Not scanned X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ Original-Received: from smtp.damtp.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.18.84]:61817 helo=medulla.damtp.cam.ac.uk) by ppsw-7.csi.cam.ac.uk (ppsw.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.137]:25) with esmtp id 1K3En9-0007i2-P3 (Exim 4.67) for ding@gnus.org (return-path ); Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:29:59 +0100 Original-Received: from notch.damtp.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.16.112] ident=exim) by medulla.damtp.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.32) id 1K3En9-0002WQ-97; Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:29:59 +0100 Original-Received: from sje30 by notch.damtp.cam.ac.uk with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1K3En9-0002GA-65; Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:29:59 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Reiner Steib's message of "Sat, 31 May 2008 11:17:56 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67016 Archived-At: > We need to update message.texi (info "(message)Mail Aliases") as > well. Stephen, could you provide a patch, please? sure -- attached. Sorry for delay; it only handles the Emacs case, I'm sorry that I can't help with XEmacs, but it looks like only mailabbrev is supported anyway currently within GNUS. *** /tmp/ediff8624LpA Mon Jun 2 19:26:51 2008 --- /data/notch/PUBLIC/sje30/NOBACKUP/compiles/emacs/doc/misc/message.texi Mon Jun 2 19:26:28 2008 *************** *** 1273,1279 **** After adding lines like this to your @file{~/.mailrc} file, you should be able to just write @samp{lmi} in the @code{To} or @code{Cc} (and so ! on) headers and press @kbd{SPC} to expand the alias. No expansion will be performed upon sending of the message---all expansions have to be done explicitly. --- 1273,1281 ---- After adding lines like this to your @file{~/.mailrc} file, you should be able to just write @samp{lmi} in the @code{To} or @code{Cc} (and so ! on) headers and press @kbd{SPC} to expand the alias. Completion of mail ! aliases is also available, so if @samp{lmi} is the only alias beginning ! with l, then typing @samp{l} followed by @kbd{TAB} will expand the alias. No expansion will be performed upon sending of the message---all expansions have to be done explicitly.