Re: [O] [contacts] No completion in Gnus

[Jambunathan K]

Thorsten <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello List, 
> I have a org-contacts file with a few contacts with EMAIL property,
> taken from gnus using org-capture as described in the org-contacts
> manual. The contacts are tagged with some tags. But if I try to send an
> email to one of the contacts using completion in message-mode, nothing
> happens. I type + and press <TAB> in the To: header, but to no avail. I
> even restarted Emacs without loading bbdb, since there seemed to be some
> interference, but that didn't help either. I cannot find any more variables to
> connect org-contacts with gnus, so I guess it should work out of the
> box. 

(caveat: I have never used org-contacts)

In such cases, typically there is an insinuate function. Yes, there is
one

(org-contacts-gnus-insinuate)

Try adding that to .emacs or eval it.

I also see this snippet of code in org-contacts.el and is done
automatically for you.

(when (boundp 'completion-at-point-functions)
  (add-hook 'message-mode-hook
            (lambda ()
              (add-to-list 'completion-at-point-functions
                           'org-contacts-message-complete-function))))


So while composing the mail, check the value of variable
completion-at-point-functions and make sure you see some org-contacts
related entries there.

Looks like the guts of completion happen in
org-contacts-complete-name. So you can place your cursor on a message
header and try doing

M-: (org-contacts-complete-name)

Hope something interesting will happen.

> What might be wrong in this case?
> Thanks for any hints. 
>
> PS
> One further org-contacts related question: there is a predefined
> property ADDRESS, without any inner structure. Am I supposed to write my own
> org-capture template for that property? How would that look like - just
> one single string? If I want something more structured (street, city,
> zip-code etc), I have to define one property for each info-piece, or is
> there something like a compound property? 

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