Wanderlust and EBDB integration
Eric Abrahamsen <[email protected]> Mon, 02 Oct 2017 16:57:47 -0700
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Hi all, I've been working a package called EBDB, which is kind of a port or rewrite of BBDB, the contact management package. I saw the recent threads here about BBDB, which prompted me to provide EBDB support for Wanderlust as well. In terms of its interaction with MUAs, EBDB works much the same as BBDB (same hooks and whatnot). Minimal testing indicates it's working fine -- here's what the library look like now: https://github.com/girzel/ebdb/blob/master/ebdb-wl.el The one thing I'm missing is a couple of functions for extracting the message body and message signature of the message currently being viewed. This is for the purpose of extracting contact information from the text: ie, if someone emails you someone else's name and email address, EBDB should be able to extract that automatically from the message and create a new contact. The functions need to start in the summary buffer (`wl-summary-mode'), and do a save-excursion down to the message itself. One function returns the body of the message as a string, the other function returns the signature as a string. Fifteen minutes with the WL codebase didn't reveal a succinct solution for this, can anyone point me in the right direction? Also: EBDB provides completion in mail composition modes, for names and email addresses. I looked at WL's completion code, and it looks like I would set `wl-address-init-function' to something that dumped the entire EBDB into `wl-address-completion-list'. That seems fairly extreme, as it duplicates potentially a huge amount data. Right now I've provided the option to override the TAB key to call `ebdb-complete-mail' instead of WL's own functions, but if there's a more graceful way of integrating EBDB mail completion, I would love to know about it. Thanks, Eric