Re: Is Username Expansion possible in GNUS?

[Hans de Graaff <J.J.deGraaff@TWI.TUDelft.NL>]

Mark Breslauer <markbres@aimnet.com> writes:

> I started using BBDB recently and found that, while it works great
> with the current version of VM, it has trouble with the current Gnus.
> 
> If it isn't too much bother could you let me know what sort of
> invocations do you use in either ~/gnus or ~/.emacs to have BBDB work
> well with Gnus?

In addition to gnus-bbdb.el, which Jack Vinson already mentioned, I
can tell you what I have in my .gnus. This is with BBDB-1.51.

;; This hooks M-Tab into BBDB's file completion in message mode
(defun bbdb-insinuate-message ()
  "Call this function to hook BBDB completion into message"
  (define-key message-mode-map "\M-\t" 'bbdb-complete-name))
(add-hook 'message-mode-hook 'bbdb-insinuate-message)

;; Code for BBDB coupling using gnus-bbdb.el
(require 'gnus-bbdb) 
(gnus-bbdb-insinuate-summary-buffer)
(bbdb-insinuate-gnus)

This causes people who are in BBDB to be shown with a '+', ':' gets
their record in a separate buffer (or adds them if no record is
found), and ';' edits their comment.


BTW, Jack, I noticed in gnus-bbdb.el that you mention that scoring on
people in BBDB doesn't work yet. Is this still true? Will it get
fixed?

Hans
-- 
Hans de Graaff                              J.J.deGraaff@TWI.TUDelft.NL
Delft University of Technology        Department of Information Systems
---- <a href="http://is.twi.tudelft.nl/~graaff/">Hans de Graaff</a> ---