Re: mc-expand-mail-abbrev

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Sat, Sep 17 2005, Michael Cook wrote:

>> when using S D r (gnus-summary-resend-message), it'd be nice to be
>> able to expand mail aliases and to complete via bbdb.

ACK

>> so, i took a stab at it.  i think my solution is not quite right
>> yet, but it seems to be close.  any thoughts?
[...]
> (defun mc-expand-mail-abbrev (arg)
>   "Expand the mail abbreviation before point."
>   (interactive "P")
>   ;; See what is between point and the preceding newline, colon or comma.
>   ;; If it's a single word, then attempt to expand it using "mail-abbrev".
[...]
>   ;; Now try BBDB completion.
>   (bbdb-complete-name arg))
> (define-key minibuffer-local-map "\M-," 'mc-expand-mail-abbrev)
> (define-key message-mode-map "\M-," 'mc-expand-mail-abbrev)

Wouldn't it be better to hook `message-expand-name' into
`message-minibuffer-local-map'?  See `message-read-from-minibuffer'.

(I didn't try, so maybe this is nonsense.)

Bye, Reiner.
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