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2 nits about mailabbrev
From: |
John Owens |
Subject: |
2 nits about mailabbrev |
Date: |
Sun, 26 Sep 2004 18:29:43 +0000 (UTC) |
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Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) |
1) .alias accepts a syntax like the following:
alias gwbush "George W. Bush <address@hidden>"
All good so far. I like this syntax; it's well-known, it's easy, pretty
much every mailer likes it. Now, when I expand the alias
(add-hook 'mail-mode-hook 'mail-abbrevs-setup)
in mail mode, I get the following:
To: George W. Bush <address@hidden>
Now, while that looks nice, the . after W is not in fact good syntax,
and to make it compliant (RFC 822), it should really expand to
To: "George W. Bush" <address@hidden>
although if I just had
alias gwbush "George W Bush <address@hidden>"
I think it should expand to
To: George W Bush <address@hidden>
2) Again using mailabbrev, expansion happens after the @
character is typed, so if I have
alias george "GW Bush <address@hidden>"
and then I want to mail my friend address@hidden, I type
To: george@
which immediately expands to
To: GW Bush <address@hidden>@
which does not seem to me to be useful. I can't think of a
circumstance where I'd want expansion when the @ character
is typed. Commas, whitespace, that makes sense. But not @.
Using fairly recent (~1 week ago) build of CVS emacs 21.3.50.1
on OS X 10.3.5.
JDO
- 2 nits about mailabbrev,
John Owens <=