People who like Helm might also want to consider helm-mu which allows (among other things) to search contacts stored in mu's index. It doesn't have a blacklist but I never felt I needed one because in Helm it's very easy to refine the search to exclude matches and to navigate the search results.
https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm-mu On 2014-08-19 Tue 02:17, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote: > 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.
