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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com>
Cc: 50667@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50667: Update ecomplete when used via standard UI
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2021 23:06:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r1dlpp8t.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871r5l1tud.fsf@gmail.com> (Augusto Stoffel's message of "Sat, 18 Sep 2021 23:01:30 +0200")

Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com> writes:

> If one keeps sets
>
>     (setq message-mail-alias-type nil ;; or keep the default 'abbrev
>           message-expand-name-standard-ui t)
>
> and an ecomplete database file, then everything works OOTB,

Works in what way?

> except that the ecomplete database doesn't get updated with new
> addresses.
>
> Is the following change a reasonable fix for this?

[...]

> -      (when (and (message-mail-alias-type-p 'ecomplete)
> +      (when (and (bound-and-true-p ecomplete-database)

I think this would be highly surprising behaviour -- just loading a
library shouldn't have such side effects.

What's your use case here?  You don't want to use ecomplete for alias
expansions, but you still want to update the ecomplete database?

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-18 21:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-18 21:01 bug#50667: Update ecomplete when used via standard UI Augusto Stoffel
2021-09-18 21:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-09-18 21:35   ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-09-19 15:10     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-19 16:02       ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-11-05  3:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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