Re[2]: Contextual naming using macros?

[Mark R Harding]

Alexander,

Regarding your message dated: Saturday, April 08, 2000...

AVK Well, I could (with the help of regexp) make a macro that would:
AVK 1. work exactly as FNAME when there _is_ a from name in the From: header 
AVK of the message you reply to;
AVK 2. expand to blank (or whatever predefined by you) string otherwise.

I imagine that even if such a reg-exp were developed it would still
need to be altered for each case (person) since doing something clever
like substituting "Jon" in place of "Jonathan" is different to
replacing "William" with "Bill" and so on...

My original hope was that if there were some way to tap into the
address book then a single macro (or reg-exp) could be used in all
cases.

AVK If there exists some interest in the macro described above here on TBUDL,
AVK please let me know.

I would be interested in the above ... BUT ... I must admit the
interest is more whimsical and I would not want to ask another to
spend their valuable spare time developing such a reg-exp purely to
satiate an interest.  It would be another story if many TBUDL
contributors also posted an interest but otherwise...

Besides, considering I never had this type of functionality before I
started using TB! as my email client I hardly feel it would be right
to be too annoyed in cases like this where the functionality is just a
little shy of my ideal... perhaps the point will be picked up for
incorporation into a future version (like so many other things huh?!)
but even if I can't wrangle a 'fits all' solution for now the added
function this feature provides still works to my advantage in the
majority of situations.

Cheers,

Mark


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Re[2]: Contextual naming using macros?

[Mark R Harding]

Allie,

Regarding your message dated: Friday, April 07, 2000...

AM This is the only part I can make a worthwhile comment on. My
AM only suggestion is that you use address book templates and create
AM templates for those in your address book which require a special
AM greeting, your example being a valid instance.

This was an idea I had and tried in the past... my desire ultimately
is to not have to do this which was why I postulated on the existence
of a macro to extract corresponding information from the address book.

Looks like I might just have to live with a little added complexity in
my address book for the time being... :{

I agree with your point that the bat should leave the field blank if
there's no sender name though...

Whatever, this was just a hopeful attempt to save a little energy -
nothing more than that.  Ho-hum.

Cheers,

Mark


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