Re: content management in emacs

["Juan Manuel Macías" <maciaschain@posteo.net>]

Martin Steffen <msteffen@ifi.uio.no> writes:

> I am not sure about the question. If I send to an email list, it's an
> address in BBDB. So I ``invoke'' BBDB (M-x bbdb) and give it the name of
> the entry (say org-mode). That's analogous to send to a person: If you
> remember the name (or part of the name), you find the entry, send then
> compose an email ("m") on the entry.

There is also helm-bbdb, wich is very useful
(https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm-bbdb). For Gnus I have defined this:

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(require 'helm-bbdb)

(setq message-completion-alist '(("^\\(Newsgroups\\|Followup-To\\|Posted-To\\|Gcc\\):" . message-expand-group)
                                 ("^\\(Resent-\\)?\\(To\\|B?Cc\\):" . helm-bbdb-expand-name)
                                 ("^\\(Reply-To\\|From\\|Mail-Followup-To\\|Mail-Copies-To\\):" . helm-bbdb-expand-name)
                                 ("^\\(Disposition-Notification-To\\|Return-Receipt-To\\):"
                                  . helm-bbdb-expand-name)))
#+end_src

And to insert an address at point (for example, in Org, in the `mail_to'
property):

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(defun my-insert-mail-address-helm-bbdb (_candidate)
  (save-window-excursion
    (helm-bbdb--view-person-action-1 (helm-bbdb--marked-contacts))
    (call-interactively 'bbdb-mail-address)
    (kill-buffer))
  (yank))

(add-to-list 'helm-bbdb-actions '("Insert mail address" . my-insert-mail-address-helm-bbdb))
#+end_src

Regards,

Juan Manuel