From: Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no
Subject: Re: Keymap in message mode?
Date: 25 Nov 1996 15:30:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vafiv6ufdrn.fsf@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Jens Lautenbacher's message of 25 Nov 1996 16:43:09 +0100
>>>>> Jens Lautenbacher writes:
Jens> Sometime ago, if I remember correctly, someone posted a piece
Jens> of code which changed the behaviour of the M-Tab in the header
Jens> of a message according to the current headerline(so one could
Jens> bind it in the to line to bbdb-complete-foo-bar and in the
Jens> newsgroup line it would do a complete over the newsgroups.)
That may have been me. Used TAB tho, rather than M-TAB.
kai
--
I wonder why nobody don't like me,
or is it de fact dat I'm ugly? -- Harry Belafonte
;; message-x.el -- customizable completion in message headers
;; Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
;; 9 Aug 96
(require 'message)
(defvar message-x-body-function 'indent-relative
"message-x-tab executes this if point is in the body of a message.")
(defvar message-x-completion-alist
'(("to" . bbdb-complete-name)
("cc" . bbdb-complete-name)
("newsgroups" . message-expand-group))
"Table telling which completion function message-x-tab should invoke.
Lookup in the table is done with `equal' comparison of the header.")
(defun message-x-in-header-p ()
"Returns t iff point is in the header section."
(save-excursion
(let ((p (point)))
(beginning-of-buffer)
(and (re-search-forward (concat "^"
(regexp-quote mail-header-separator)
"$"))
(progn (beginning-of-line) t)
(< p (point))))))
(defun message-x-which-header ()
"Returns the header we're currently in. Returns nil if not in a header.
Example: returns \"to\" if we're in the \"to\" header right now."
(and (message-x-in-header-p)
(save-excursion
(beginning-of-line)
(while (looking-at "^[ \t]+") (forward-line -1))
(looking-at "\\([^:]+\\):")
(downcase (buffer-substring-no-properties (match-beginning 1)
(match-end 1))))))
(defun message-x-tab ()
"Does completion based on header currently in or executes a default
function in the body."
(interactive)
(let ((header (assoc (message-x-which-header)
message-x-completion-alist)))
(funcall
(if header (cdr header) message-x-body-function))))
(define-key message-mode-map "\t" 'message-x-tab)
(provide 'message-x)
;; message-x ends here
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-11-25 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-11-25 15:43 Jens Lautenbacher
1996-11-25 14:30 ` Kai Grossjohann [this message]
1996-11-25 18:18 ` Jens Lautenbacher
1996-11-26 16:21 ` Edward J. Sabol
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