Excerpts from plutek's message of Thu Apr 15 12:29:04 -0400 2010: > greetings! > > i'm curious about how the contacts list actually works... i've read and > written a number of emails in sup now, and "C" shows quite a few contacts. > when i open contacts.txt for editing, those contacts do not show in that > file. however, if i add a few contacts in contacts.txt, they get added to the > "C" list in sup -- if they were already there, the nickname i put in > contacts.txt shows up, and if they weren't, then they become new additions to > the list. contacts which are in the "C" list but which are *not* in > contacts.txt do not participate in autocompletion when filling in headers. > > so, it looks like sup maintains its "C" list somewhere other than > contacts.txt -- if i want those addresses which are "C"-listed to benefit > from autocompletion, i have to manually add them to contacts.txt, right? > > why doesn't sup auto-add "C" list addresses to contacts.txt? > > also, i noticed that all editing of contacts.txt has to be done while sup is > not running -- anything changed during a sup run get reverted when sup closes. > > one other question regarding contacts: is there any facility for mailing > lists? it looks like that's not currently possible, since if i do this in > contacts.txt... > > listname: person1 <address1>, person2 <address2, person3 <address3
oops... i meant this, of course: listname: person1 <address1>, person2 <address2>, person3 <address3> > > ...person2 and person3 get dropped in autocompletion and the "C" list. > > cheers! -- .pltk. _______________________________________________ sup-talk mailing list sup-talk@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk
