"Bob Newell" <[email protected]> writes: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2026, at 06:30, Gfp wrote: > ... >> So how can I find the email addresses and autocomplete >> their names? If I don´t remember the email address? >> >> Is there a package I have to install additionally? > > This works really well with the BBDB package, although > some study and setup will be required. Set it to capture > incoming and outgoing email addresses (maybe with some > exceptions), and then tab completion can also be set up. > Once you have it working it's indispensable. >
You can also define aliases for email addresses that you know and expect to reuse. Evaluate the following expression in Emacs to read the user manual section on mail aliases: (info "(emacs) Mail Aliases") Once you have defined aliases for your list of email addresses, you can use completion on your aliases, as the manual entry above documents: "You can also insert an aliased address directly, using the command ‘M-x mail-abbrev-insert-alias’. This reads an alias name, with completion, and inserts its definition at point." Of course, you can map the command ‘mail-abbrev-insert-alias’ to a keybinding that you find mnemonic and convenient, either globally using ‘keymap-global-set’ or to a local keymap using ‘keymap-set’. -- The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. - Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parliament of Birds.
