From: torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson)
To: Emacs Help List <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Help writing a helm email-address-at-point fn
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2019 22:06:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bm2jco7n.fsf@byu.edu> (raw)
I use helm and bbdb to complete addresses in my to/from/cc fields. It sort-of works, but I'm leveraging word-at-point. This means that if I type "Joe" and type "<TAB>", I see the completions I expect, but if I type "Joe Somebod" I get completions (and replace) just the "Somebod", both not taking into account the "Joe" and also leaving it there after I make my selection. It seems like I need to define a new "thing-at-point" function, but I'm having trouble figuring out how.
Looking at how bbdb-company isolates the right match, I gleaned the following regexp:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(looking-back "^\\(To\\|Cc\\|Bcc\\): *.*? *\\([^,;]*\\)" (line-beginning-position))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
But I can't quite figure out how to use that to make a thing-at-point I could drop in to replace my use of `word-at-point`. Any help would be much appreciated.
- Tory
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