I use radio headers in my contacts data base, like:
* <<<Alice>>>
* <<<Bob>>> (Alice's brother)
org-contacts was presenting the names with <<< before, so you needed to type
<<< to match them. I attach a patch to remove this particular formatting before
presenting the completions; in this way you can match them by Al or B
Removing bold/italic/underline/pre is harder. If there is any better function
to remove formatting, please use it.
-- Daniel
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diff --git a/contrib/lisp/org-contacts.el b/contrib/lisp/org-contacts.el
index 74d68dc..156fa66 100644
--- a/contrib/lisp/org-contacts.el
+++ b/contrib/lisp/org-contacts.el
@@ -375,12 +375,18 @@ This function should be called from
`gnus-article-prepare-hook'."
(org-completing-read
prompt (org-contacts-filter) predicate t initial-input hist def
inherit-input-method))
+(defun org-contacts-format-name (name)
+ "Remove some formatting marks from contact name"
+ (replace-regexp-in-string org-radio-target-regexp "\\1" name)
+ ; TODO also remove emphasis (org-emphasis-alist)
+)
+
(defun org-contacts-format-email (name email)
"Format a mail address."
(unless email
(error "`email' cannot be nul"))
(if name
- (concat name " <" email ">")
+ (concat (org-contacts-format-name name) " <" email ">")
email))
(defun org-contacts-check-mail-address (mail)
