[emacs-wiki-discuss] hippie-expand, planner and bbdb

[Paul Lussier]

Hi all,

I use sacha's hippie expand with planner and bbdb extensively, and I'm
wondering if anyone here (sacha? :) can point me in the right
direction.

I have a lot of bbdb records which I link into my planner pages.  It
gets tedious seeing them linked in as John J. Jones, especially if no
one who knows him ever calls him that.  I want to have hippie-expand
look for an AKA bbdb field and either enter what it finds there, or
offer a multiple of choices if it finds more than one. I only expect
to have a single AKA entry in most cases, but you never know.

So, if I type in 'john' and invoke hippie-expand, I'd like it to
expand to JohnnyJ, or whatever is in the AKA field (or, perhaps even
be able to customize the fields it looks at for this expansion).

Given a bbdb record of:

  Sacha Chua
              net: address@hidden
              AKA: sachac

when I type in sacha, I get: [[bbdb://Sacha.Chua][Sacha Chua]].
I'd prefer to get: [[bbdb://Sacha.Chua][sachac]]

Any ideas?

-- 
Seeya,
Paul