From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: bbdb-define-all-aliases Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 22:05:00 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87oaqdgcqr.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87wq53ofus.fsf@skimble.plus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1420491948 17850 80.91.229.3 (5 Jan 2015 21:05:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 21:05:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 05 22:05:43 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8Eq2-0000Wx-6y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2015 22:05:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33965 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8Eq1-0006EP-Ca for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2015 16:05:21 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin3!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 48 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: feB02bRejf23rfBm51Mt7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:p8c20mdGWkVfoidgd96rl+usLbE= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:209615 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:101893 Archived-At: Sharon Kimble writes: > So I'll now put the bbdb code of mine back and see > if it happens again. What fun! Absolutely positively: solve problems, get new ones... BBDB [1] ("The Insidious Big Brother Database") seems to be very ambitious to be an address book! (Probably more than meets the eye, then.) Anyone can get an address book for Gnus and the message-mode like this - put entries in the .mailrc file, i.e. the file specified in `mail-personal-alias-file': alias john "John DiFool " alias kate "Katherine Moss " alias friends john kate And then you can put the file into Conf mode to make it look good (I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it): (let ((extras '( ("\\.\\(glsl\\|oil\\)" . c-mode) ("\\.lua" . lua-mode) ("\\.\\(list\\|theme\\|mailrc\\|sed\\|inc\\)" . conf-mode) ; ... ))) (setq auto-mode-alist (append extras auto-mode-alist)) ) Bring the file up lightning-fast with a keystroke and you are all set. To never have to fumble for email addresses is a bliss! I'm not saying BBDB is anything less (I never used it) but .mailrc is very easy and quick to setup and use. To answer a mail with the original yanked so you can quote, which is a very good idea (both of them), use `gnus-article-followup-with-original' from the article mode. [1] http://emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryBbdb -- underground experts united