Re: [sup-talk] contacts list confusion

[plutek@infinity.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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