Re: org-contacts email completion by tags

[Daimrod <daimrod@gmail.com>]

John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

Hi,

First, sorry for the late reply.

> Here is what I finally ended up with to allow completion with tag
> expressions. I did not figure out how to avoid overwriting an
> org-contacts function. I thought I could find the right hooks to use,
> but I could not figure it out. It is only a one line modification to the
> org-contacts function.

I've added a new hook `org-contacts-complete-functions' that you can use
to plug your function.

> This works for tag expressions, but I have not
> gotten it to work with properties.
>
> (defun org-contacts-complete-tags (start end tag-expression)
>   "insert emails from org-contacts that match the tags expression. For example:
> group-phd will match entries tagged with group but not with phd."
>   (let* ((completion-ignore-case org-contacts-completion-ignore-case)
> 	 (group-completion-p t))
>     (let ((result (mapconcat 'identity
> 		     (loop for contact in (org-contacts-db)
> 			   for contact-name = (car contact)
> 			   for email = (org-contacts-strip-link (car (org-contacts-split-property
> 								      (or
> 								       (cdr (assoc-string org-contacts-email-property
> 											  (caddr contact)))
> 								       ""))))
> 			   for tags = (cdr (assoc "TAGS" (nth 2 contact)))
> 			   for tags-list = (if tags
> 					       (split-string (substring (cdr (assoc "TAGS" (nth 2 contact))) 1 -1) ":")
> 					     '())
> 			   if (let ((todo-only nil))
> 				(eval (cdr (org-make-tags-matcher tag-expression))))
> 			   
> 			   collect (org-contacts-format-email contact-name email))
> 		     ",")))
>       (when (not (string= "" result))
> 	;; return (start end function)
> 	(lexical-let* ((to-return result))
> 	  (list start end
> 		(lambda (string pred &optional to-ignore) to-return)))))))
>

Thanks, but I'm refactoring org-contacts a bit, and I think I have found
a slightly better way to do that, but in the meantime you can use the
aforementioned hook for your function.

Best,

-- 
Daimrod/Greg