On 2022-03-15, 13:37 +0100, Alexander Adolf <alexander.ad...@condition-alpha.com> wrote:
> Utkarsh Singh <utkarsh190...@gmail.com> writes: > >> [...] >>>> `post-completion': Called after a completion candidate has been >>>> inserted >>>> into the buffer. The second argument is the candidate. Can be used >>>> to >>>> modify it, e.g. to expand a snippet. >>>> [...] >>> >>> Hm, that sounds like it would functionally be similar to specifying an >>> :exit-function property in completion-extra-properties? >> >> Great! We can definitely work with this. >> [...] > > I'm glad to learn we might be heading in the same direction. AFAIR you > spoke about removing company from notmuch-address.el altogether? That > would be by impetus, too. > > EUDC [1], which is part of core Emacs, has just been given the ability > to combine search results from several sources [2]. > > [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eudc.html > [2] > https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/0470a4a939772c4bd25123b15f5eadab41f8bee5 > > I have written experimental code to make EUDC contribute to > completion-at-point, and to make notmuch-address contribute to EUDC > search results. This works in principle, and I get combined search > results from notmuch-address, and the macOS Contacts app in a corfu > pop-over UI in header fields of message-mode. It seems you were looking > for something similar? Honestly, I didn't knew about EUDC, but it looks promising. > With this kind of setup, the overall architecture for email address > completion could be like this: > > notmuch-address \ > BBDB | > LDAP > --> EUDC --+ > macOS Contacts | | > ... / V > | > +----------<-------------+ > | > V / completing-read > | | corfu > + --> completion-at-point --> < company > | ... > \ > > This would remove any user interface related code from > notmuch-address.el, an instead convert it into a back-end for EUDC. > > Looking forward to your thoughts, Thank you for working on this issue. But from now, its up to Notmuch maintainers to decide whether or not they want any improvements in `notmuch-address.el'. -- Utkarsh Singh https://utkarshsingh.xyz/ _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list -- notmuch@notmuchmail.org To unsubscribe send an email to notmuch-le...@notmuchmail.org
