Re: Add integration to gnus-search library, if present

"Roland Winkler" <[email protected]> Fri, 6 Nov 2020 14:04:32 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.bbdb.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri Nov 6 2020 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> A package like BBDB is one step removed from this logic. Ideally its
> only job should be to provide a table of contact-related strings that
> the user might want to complete on. It shouldn't be involved in the
> "downstream" logic of examining user input, etc.

If that's the case, it might make sense to have a new variable
bbdb-completion-at-point-hashtable the content of which bbdb users
can customize similar to bbdb-completion-list.  Then this customized
hashtable can be made available to the "outside world" such as the
gnus-search library.