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From: plutek@infinity.net
To: sup-talk <sup-talk@rubyforge.org>
Subject: Re: [sup-talk] contacts list confusion
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:57:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1271433052-sup-9462@paldesk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1271409217-sup-3839@tilus.net>

Excerpts from Tero Tilus's message of Fri Apr 16 05:30:51 -0400 2010:
> Sup doesn't actually maintain the "C" list anywhere.  It consists of
> contacts.txt, the list returned from extra-contact-addresses hook and
> other contacts extracted from the mails sup has recently indexed.  You
> can load more (older) extracted contacts by hitting "M" when viewing
> the contacts list.

thanks for that!

> > -- if i want those addresses which are "C"-listed to benefit from
> > autocompletion, i have to manually add them to contacts.txt, right?
> 
> Partially.  You can highlight them, hit "i" (and optionally give
> completion alias and fix real name) and sup adds them to contacts.txt.

excellent!

> > why doesn't sup auto-add "C" list addresses to contacts.txt?
> 
> Because you don't want all the (rubbish) addresses with all the
> (rubbish) realnames floating around bloating your contacts.  You want
> sup to be able to parse contacts out of mails, present them (the
> "persistent" and latest new) nicely to you and let you cherry-pick the
> contacts you want to "persist".

perfectly sensible!

> I don't know how it is supposed to work, but I do have mailinglists in
> my contacts.txt like this:
> 
> list-alias: person1-alias, person2-alias
> person1-alias: Person One <person.one@invalid>
> person2-alias: Person Two <person.two@invalid>
> 
> It has the added bonus of the people in the list being available for
> autocompletion one by one too.

cool.... a very nice list facility, indeed.

thanks for all the answers! with these details in place, sup has now officially taken over my world.

cheers!

-- 
.pltk.
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      reply	other threads:[~2010-04-16 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-15 16:29 plutek
2010-04-15 16:35 ` plutek
2010-04-16  9:30 ` Tero Tilus
2010-04-16 15:57   ` plutek [this message]

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