On Mon, 18-08-2014, at 17:27, Ken Mankoff <[email protected]> wrote: > * On 2014-08-18 at 04:41, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote: >> I would like to be able to edit the contact list used for >> autocompletion. Why? I occasionally send an email to a mistaken >> address, or the same person over time changes emails (say >> "Name.Lastname@something" to "Lastname.Name@something"), but I have no >> idea how to edit/remove the no-longer-in-use/wrong email addresses. I >> can see ~/.mu/cache/contacts (but it says "do not edit"), and I can >> even see that sometimes email addresses with much higher frequencies >> get listed after entries with frequencies of 1. I haven't been able to >> find how to edit this list. This entry >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mu-discuss/-M9BmTmMlhk/discussion > > My solution is to only use the last X days of email addresses. This way > stale/incorrect email addresses need to be handled manually for a short > (for certain values of X) while to make sure I use the correct one, and > then the fall out of the DB. > > I combine the mu-generated address list with my own OS X Contacts > database, where I maintain "permanent" addresses that I want to have > autocomplete even if I haven't emailed them within the past X days. > > I do this by 1) using mu to find contacts within the last 90 days and > exporting in Org format. > > mu cfind --format=org-contact --after=`date -v-90d +%s` >> ~/.contacts.org > > And then 2) some custom code that reads my "permanent" address book and > appends it to contacts.org in the correct format.
Thanks! I might try to combine this with Josiah's approach. Best, R. > > -k. -- Ramon Diaz-Uriarte Department of Biochemistry, Lab B-25 Facultad de Medicina Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Arzobispo Morcillo, 4 28029 Madrid Spain Phone: +34-91-497-2412 Email: [email protected] [email protected] http://ligarto.org/rdiaz -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mu-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
