Subject: [sup-talk] External contact manager/address book

From: [email-masked] (Daniel H. Neilson)
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 13:14:39 -0400

First off, thanks to William and everyone who has contributed to sup.
I'm making the switch from mutt and really enjoying it.

I hunted the list archives and the wiki but couldn't find an answer to
my current problem. In keeping with the philosophy of having one good
tool for each job, I use a separate program to manage contacts (abook).
It helps me to have phone numbers, birthdays, mailing addresses, and
e-mail addresses all in the same place.

abook is designed to work with mutt, using

set query_command="abook --mutt-query '%s'"

in my .muttrc . I know that other similar programs are designed to work
with mutt in the same way (lbdb?). This setup is nice because I can
auto-complete To: addresses with ctrl-T, and I get "Full Name <address>"
in the To: line.

I wonder if there is a way to get similar behavior in sup? 

Thanks,
Dan

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From: [email-masked] (Marc Hartstein)
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 14:10:35 -0400

Excerpts from Daniel H. Neilson's message of Wed May 07 13:14:39 -0400 2008:
> In keeping with the philosophy of having one good tool for each job, I
> use a separate program to manage contacts (abook).  It helps me to
> have phone numbers, birthdays, mailing addresses, and e-mail addresses
> all in the same place.

Hey, thanks for linking to abook.  It looks like it might be exactly
what I've been looking for.

> I wonder if there is a way to get similar behavior in sup? 

I think you're looking for the extra-contact-addresses hook, announced
about a month ago:

extra-contact-addresses
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File: ~/.sup/hooks/extra-contact-addresses.rb
A list of extra addresses to propose for tab completion, etc. when the
user is entering an email address. Can be plain email addresses or can
be full "User Name <email at domain.tld>" entries.

Variables: none
Return value: an array of email address strings.

Looks like, at present, you'll have to request the full db from abook
and pass it up to sup, and you'll have to do a bit of processing to
transform the format from mutt's "email at address Full Name" to "Full Name
<email at address>".
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From: [email-masked] (Israel Herraiz)
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 13:26:19 +0200

> I think you're looking for the extra-contact-addresses hook, announced

No the most beautiful piece of code, but the attached Ruby script will
do the task. Just copy it to your ~/.sup/hooks and when you hit tab
for autocompletion of addresses and names, you will obtain a list from
your abook database.

Cheers,
Israel
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