On Tue Apr 16 2013 Vincent Beffara wrote: > For some reason this reply wont go through to the mailing list ... Maybe > it will eventually and there will be 2 copies, sorry if that happens! > > >> Is there a way to combine BBDB with the functionality of %f in summary > >> buffers (displaying the recipient if the mail is from me, with a nice > >> "-> " in front) ? > > > > What is BBDB supposed to contribute here? I do not understand what > > you want to achieve. > > Sorry for not being clear, let me provide some context here. In Gnus, > summary buffers provide a list of messages in a given mailbox/feed and > this is of course customizable. Typically, you would put the date, the > subject, and the author of the message. But for your own messages, it is > much more convenient to display the recipient instead, with some > graphical indication that this is what is shown. Typically, this would > be done by prefixing something like "-> " to the displayed name. > > This is all done automatically by Gnus, the %f formatting code does > exactly this, using a regexp match (gnus-ignored-from-addresses) to the > From: field to determine whether you are the author. > > OTOH, Gnus only uses information contained in the message. If the From: > field contains no full name, for instance, the email address is > displayed instead. This is where BBDB can help, by looking up the > address and replacing it with the full name from the db - looks much > neater this way. This is achieved by the %uB code. In addition, one gets > an indicator of whether the author is in the db or not, typically a '+' > in front of the name. > > What would be wonderful would be to combine the two, i.e. first > determine if the message is from me or from somebody else like %f does, > and then once the correct address for display is chosen, look it up in > the db like %uB does.
I am sorry, in BBDB v3 there is currently nothing beyond bbdb-mua-summary-unify and the customization that goes with it. You need to extend gnus-user-format-function-B defined in bbdb-insinuate-gnus. The code should be sufficiently modular for that. Roland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
