message and TAB

message and TAB

[Kai Grossjohann]

In message-mode I tried to bind TAB to indent-relative.  But of
course, the default binding of TAB interferes.

As being able to hit TAB to complete newsgroup names is a Nifty
Feature, I wouldn't really want to rebind TAB.

WIBNI there was some way of customizing which function to use for TAB?

(setq message-tab-handler-alist
      '(("to\\|cc" . bbdb-complete-name)
        ("newsgroups\\|followup-to" . message-complete-newsgroup)
        ; for the message body
        (t . indent-relative))) 

Whatcha think?
kai
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Re: message and TAB

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Kai Grossjohann <grossjoh@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> (setq message-tab-handler-alist
>       '(("to\\|cc" . bbdb-complete-name)
>         ("newsgroups\\|followup-to" . message-complete-newsgroup)
>         ; for the message body
>         (t . indent-relative))) 
> 
> Whatcha think?

It's a bit too fuzzy.  Perhaps Message should instead use a local
keymap in the Newsgroups header and just bind `TAB' to the completion
thingie there?  What do y'all think?  (This means that `TAB' won't
work if the user inserts the Newsgroups header manually...)

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  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen

Re: message and TAB

[Kai Grossjohann]

>>>>> On 20 Jun 1996 16:50:39 +0200, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
>>>>> <larsi@ifi.uio.no> said:

  Lars> It's a bit too fuzzy.  Perhaps Message should instead use a
  Lars> local keymap in the Newsgroups header and just bind `TAB' to
  Lars> the completion thingie there? [...]

I'm not quite sure what you mean by `fuzzy', but I wish there was a
way to customize this.  After all, if you've already got a mechanism
for doing group name expansion in a header, why shouldn't I be able to
customize it so that it does bbdb-complete-name in To and Cc headers?

I have no strong feelings about whether to implement it with such a
header-local keymap.  (Would that be a keymap in an overlay or a
special face or something?  Never done this before.)  But maybe C-f
C-f C-t and friends should do the right thing?

kai
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