Re: Small change to message-tab to allow completion of mail aliases

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

On Sat, May 31 2008, Dave Goldberg wrote:

>>>>>> On Fri, 30 May 2008 19:14:50 +0200, Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> said:
>
>> Does this change have any drawbacks?  I always use the bbdb code path,
>> so I'm not familiar with the current and proposed behavior.

We need to update message.texi (info "(message)Mail Aliases") as
well.  Stephen, could you provide a patch, please?

>>> (defun message-expand-name ()
[...]
>>> (t
>>> (mail-abbrev-complete-alias))))
>>> ;;(expand-abbrev))))
>
> Unless my packages are out of date (entirely possible),
> mail-abbrev-complete-alias is not available in XEmacs 21.4.21.

If it's not available in the current packages, you can ask the XEmacs
package maintainer to update it (in Emacs it is in
`mail/mailabbrev.el').

But we can use test if it is available so that it still works with
(your) current XEmacs:

--- message.el	29 May 2008 20:10:06 +0200	7.263
+++ message.el	31 May 2008 11:04:08 +0200	
@@ -7650,6 +7650,9 @@
 	((and (memq 'bbdb message-expand-name-databases)
 	      (fboundp 'bbdb-complete-name))
 	 (bbdb-complete-name))
+	((fboundp 'mail-abbrev-complete-alias)
+	 ;; Complete partial mail aliases as well.  (Not available in XEmacs?)
+	 (mail-abbrev-complete-alias))
 	(t
 	 (expand-abbrev))))

Bye, Reiner.
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