Re: [sup-talk] contacts list confusion

[Tero Tilus <tero@tilus.net>]

plutek, 2010-04-15 19:29:
> i'm curious about how the contacts list actually works.

It works exactly as you described.  ;)

> sup maintains its "C" list somewhere other than contacts.txt

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.

> -- 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.

> 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".

> is there any facility for mailing lists? it looks like that's not
> currently possible, since if i do this in contacts.txt...
>
> listname: person1 <address1>, person2 <address2, person3 <address3
> 
> ...person2 and person3 get dropped in autocompletion and the "C" list.

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.

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