On Thursday, February 8, 2007 at 00:19:12, Robert Widhopf wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> we had a discussion on hierarchical mail aliases like in
> ~/.mailrc and there was a patch floating around, but aliases
> in BBDB are a bit different, i.e. the alias maps only to the
> first net of a record, not all of them. Instead, multiple
> record may have the same alias to get the same result.
>
> Some years ago I have added `bbdb-define-all-aliases-mode'
> in order to implicitly generate aliases for each net and all
> nets of a record. E.g., if you have the alias "a", then
> "a1" will refer to the first net, "a2" to the second,
> ... and "a*" to all nets of a record. Expansion of "a*",
> only worked in XEmacs.
This has been removed now ...
> In fact, this made bbdb-define-all-aliases kind of
> complicated and I never actually used the feature much
> ... to be honest it is a mess and I plan to remove it and
> replace it by explicit aliases.
... and `bbdb-define-all-aliases' has been rewritten.
> I just wonder if anyone except me ever used it?
>
> So what comes next?
I call it magic aliases and nets. It is not magic, just
elisp, but it sounds better when being called magic ;-)
and it has landed in CVS now.
It features:
- Hierarchical aliases using ALIAS* and nets without @
which exist as alias (except for the * it is similar to
~/.mailrc), i.e. define an record with an alias ending
in "*" and having the other aliases as nets.
- Magic nets which expand to the matching nets of other
records, e.g. define a net "*/@some.org" and an alias for
that record and it will expand to all nets matching
"@some.org". You might also exclude some nets or write
your own handlers.
It is slightly different than sketched before ... see the
docs of `bbdb-define-all-aliases'.
Have fun with it,
Robert
PS: Hopefully there is some more feedback than on my first
message on this topic ;-)
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