[sup-talk] External contact manager/address book

[Marc Hartstein]

Excerpts from Daniel H. Neilson's message of Wed May 07 13:14:39 -0400 2008:
> In keeping with the philosophy of having one good tool for each job, I
> use a separate program to manage contacts (abook).  It helps me to
> have phone numbers, birthdays, mailing addresses, and e-mail addresses
> all in the same place.

Hey, thanks for linking to abook.  It looks like it might be exactly
what I've been looking for.

> abook is designed to work with mutt, using
> 
> set query_command="abook --mutt-query '%s'"
> 
> I wonder if there is a way to get similar behavior in sup? 

I think you're looking for the extra-contact-addresses hook, announced
about a month ago:


extra-contact-addresses
-----------------------
File: ~/.sup/hooks/extra-contact-addresses.rb
A list of extra addresses to propose for tab completion, etc. when the
user is entering an email address. Can be plain email addresses or can
be full "User Name <email at domain.tld>" entries.

Variables: none
Return value: an array of email address strings.


Looks like, at present, you'll have to request the full db from abook
and pass it up to sup, and you'll have to do a bit of processing to
transform the format from mutt's "email at address Full Name" to "Full Name
<email at address>".
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