From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Johnny Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Gnus: How to easily change "From:" from the default to a second account's address? Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 21:10:51 +0000 Message-ID: <878vmtuzs4.fsf@gmx.co.uk> References: <812215ED-D638-4BE4-8AD3-AC7EB95378E0@math.ethz.ch> <87y5v6yeyy.fsf@tsdh.uni-koblenz.de> <5BBBF1D0-1349-4C17-8D38-F75CE52D2C53@math.ethz.ch> <87bos10wv5.fsf@nzebook.haselwarter.org> <87mxbk6gkz.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87wranytta.fsf@nzebook.haselwarter.org> <87pqge49ib.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1322947111 7716 80.91.229.12 (3 Dec 2011 21:18:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 21:18:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eric Abrahamsen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 03 22:18:27 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RWwyY-0003Yw-TY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Dec 2011 22:18:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47841 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWwyY-0006DE-Am for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:18:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:45847) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWwyS-0006Cp-5r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:18:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWwyR-0004Ej-1j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:18:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mailout-eu.gmx.com ([213.165.64.45]:53634) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWwyQ-0004EM-IX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:18:19 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 03 Dec 2011 21:18:15 -0000 Original-Received: from 78-86-131-176.zone2.bethere.co.uk (EHLO deusexmachina) [78.86.131.176] by mail.gmx.com (mp-eu003) with SMTP; 03 Dec 2011 22:18:15 +0100 X-Authenticated: #57368918 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18RxN8FIlYRwA76B87fULIBgZPwuRRfYoKDlUMBQH f01sa9W7SoXy95 In-Reply-To: <87pqge49ib.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Sun, 27 Nov 2011 09:52:28 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 213.165.64.45 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:83117 Archived-At: Eric Abrahamsen writes: > On Sat, Nov 26 2011, Philipp Haselwarter wrote: > >> Eric Abrahamsen writes: >> >>> On Fri, Nov 25 2011, Philipp Haselwarter wrote: >>> >>>> I often find myself wanting to change the From: after opening the >>>> message; this allows picking one of your accounts: >>> >>> Is this much different from `message-alternative-emails'? I think that's >>> what I use to set my possible From addresses, and then TAB at the end of >>> the address will cycle through the possible addresses. >>> >> I didn't know about `message-alternative-emails', and setting From: from >> To: or Cc: works nicely :) ! >> >> But I can't seem to cycle. > > [...] I suspect it's BBDB that provides cycling. I don't use the `message-alternative-emails' at all, and I am quite sure the cycling is provided by BBDB (3.02) by matching my records `mail' field. These are the likely candidates to use in your .gnus.el file: ,---- | (setq bbdb-complete-name-allow-cycling t) | (setq bbdb-complete-mail-allow-cycling t) `---- -- Johnny