From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Addresses book (novice) Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 15:16:27 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E6525BB.1060504@ihs.com> References: <87k7fobumr.fsf@smtp.blueyonder.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046818786 14036 80.91.224.249 (4 Mar 2003 22:59:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 22:59:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 04 23:59:42 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18qKmL-0000QN-00 for ; Tue, 04 Mar 2003 23:20:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18qKlw-0002d9-05 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2003 17:20:28 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!skynet.be!skynet.be!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1046816184 62114887 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110819 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:7325 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:7325 Keith O'Connell wrote: > In ~/.emacs or ~/.gnus in the form; > > (define-mail-alias "kkk" "kroc@blueyonder.co.uk") > > or in ~/.mailrc in the form > > alias keith kroc@blueyonder.co.uk > > Now, assuming I have in ~/.emacs, the following line; > > (add-hook 'mail-mode-hook 'mail-abbrevs-setup) > > 1: Why do addresses from the ~/.mailrc expand and the ones in ~/.emacs > not? Because you used define-mail-alias instead of define-mail-abbrev. > 2: Which is the best method for keeping addresses, and why? Is there > a better way The .mailrc format is also read by the Unix command line MUAs. But as others have pointed out, BBDB is even better for Emacs. -- Kevin Rodgers