On Sun Jul 31 2011 Johnny wrote:
> I have started using aliases in bbdb and wonder if there is any setup to
> autocomplete on defined aliases in the headers? Say, I have an alias
> named "listofmembers" and want to mail them. I add this mail-alias field
> to all relevant contacts, then in the "To" header type the full alias
> "listofmembers" followed by TAB, this fills in the "To" header with the
> group members email as expected. However, I would like to enable TAB
> completion on alias names, e.g. if I type "lis" and TAB this should
> ideally fill in the rest. Is this possible to achieve?
This has (almost) nothing to do with BBDB. The mailabbrev package is
doing this (both when you define aliases via a .mailrc file or via
BBDB).
You can use mail-abbrev-complete-alias from that package (I think,
usually bound to M-Tab). If you also want to use bbdb-complete-mail
things get a bit more complicated, as you need to specify some order
for completion (whether mail-abbrev-complete-alias or
bbdb-complete-mail should try first). Try something like
(defun my-bbdb-complete-mail ()
(interactive)
(or (mail-abbrev-complete-alias)
(bbdb-complete-mail)))
> Second question, is there a clever way to list all mail aliases in BBDB,
> and subsequently list all members of o select mail alias?
How about bbdb-search-notes (bound to S N)? If you want to list just
the aliases, but not the records using them, you might have to write
your own code.
Roland
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