Hi Iain,

it seems that there is no auto-completion of addresses in reply mode?

Best regards,
Robert

On Thursday, 16 July 2020 at 14:46:05 UTC-5 ipv2...@parris.org wrote:

> Hi Robert,
>
> Excerpts from Robert Winkler's message of 2020-07-16 08:15:56 -0700:
> > Hi, I already got extensive contact lists (>1,000) in various formats 
> and 
> > run a manually maintained list on an LDAP server for the really 
> important 
> > contacts.
> > 
> > How can I easily use or import contacts for the To: CC: and BCC: fields?
>
> General contacts usage is:
>
> - Global keybinding "C" - list contacts.
>
> - To specify a recipient (To/Cc/Bcc): when prompted to enter the
> recipient (e.g., after pressing "c" for "compose"), start typing,
> then press "tab" for suggestions.
>
> - In thread-view-mode, press "i" to be prompted to add to Sup's
> contacts list, with an optional alias.
>
> The contacts are sourced from file ~/.sup/contacts.txt, and from calling
> the "extra-contact-addresses" hook.
>
> So you have two main options.
>
> (1) ~/.sup/contacts.txt
>
> - Sup's built-in contacts file is ~/.sup/contacts.txt
>
> - This is written/read when Sup stops/starts, so make sure to quit
> Sup before editing it manually.
>
> - File format is one contact per line, with an optional alias.
>
> - Each line is in format like:
>
> alias: Person Name <person...@example.com>
>
> - "alias" is optional, and if omitted, then the line will look like:
>
> : Another Person <per...@example.com>
>
> - If you converted your contacts into this style, then you could
> create your own contacts.txt file, and Sup would use it.
>
> (2) extra-contact-addresses hook
>
> - This hook takes no input, and returns an array of email address
> strings that Sup is then aware of for tab-completion.
>
> - So you could alternatively write this hook to call any external
> program, and return in the format expected by Sup.
>
> - Two examples with "goobook" (for Google Account contacts) and
> "abook" (a general contact manager program that runs in the
> terminal) are here:
> <https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup/wiki/External-contacts-search>.
>
> - So if (for example) you chose "abook", then you could use any
> method to import your contacts into "abook", and then use the Sup
> hook to make Sup aware of abook's contacts.
>
> - abook is able to import ldif, so may be a natural choice. Further
> reading on abook:
> <
> https://hund0b1.gitlab.io/2018/06/25/abook-a-ncurses-adress-book-program.html
> >.
>
> For other general information about Sup's contact lists, see also:
> <https://sup-heliotrope.github.io/community/sup-talk/msg00965.html>.
>
> Kind regards,
> Iain
>