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# asyncomplete-muttgoobook.vim
A vim plugin for mail files to select email addresses from the mutt aliases file, and Google Contacts (using goobook).
A vim plugin for mail files to select email addresses from the mutt aliases file, and Google Contacts (using goobook).
## Prerequisites
* This has been tested with the [vim-plug](https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug) minimalist Vim plugin manager. Other plugin managers may work.
* This is designed to work with the [asyncomplete](https://github.com/prabirshrestha/asyncomplete.vim) code completion subsystem, which is writtin in pure Vim (v8) script.
* [goobook](http://gitlab.com/goobook/goobook) for interacting with your Google Contacts from the command line. This has been tested with Goobook 3.5.2, but 1.x may work if your distribution still uses Python 2.7+.
* This is designed to work in mutt, but is not mutt-specific (except for reading _${HOME}/.mutt/aliases_). Using vim to edit the file type `mail` should be enough to get it working.
As of this writing (2023-04-30), this has only been tested in Vim v9, but is also writtin in Vim v8 script so should work in older versions.
## Installation
1. Clone this repository into your Vim plugin directory. For vim-plug in Vim on Linux, this is usually _${HOME}/.vim/plugged_, but vim-plug will place it here automatically if you merely configure $MYVIMRC properly. Place the following line between `call plug#begin(..)` and `call plug#end()`:
```vim
call plug#begin('...')
" ...
Plug 'https://git.eldon.me/trey/asyncomplete-muttgoobook.vim'
" ...
call plug#end()
```
Then, inside Vim, run `:PlugInstall`. You can check that the muttgoobook plugin is installed successfully with `:PlugStatus`.
1. Configure Vim in $MYVIMRC to load the `muttgoobook` source using the following:
```vim
autocmd User asyncomplete_setup call asyncomplete#register_source({
\ 'name': 'muttgoobook',
\ 'allowlist': ['mail'],
\ 'completor': function('asyncomplete#sources#muttgoobook#completor'),
\ })
```
If you have other file types to use this plugin, you may add them to the `allowlist` above.
1. By default, this plugin tries to determine if the cursor is in an email address field ('From:', 'To:', 'Cc:', 'Bcc:', in English). The matching is case-insensitive. If you use another language, that names these fields differently, you can modify this in $MYVIMRC by adding the `g:muttgoobook_address_fields` global variable. This is designed to be a Vim regular expression, replace `['from', 'to', 'b\?cc']` accordingly:
```
let g:muttgoobook_address_fields = '^\s*\(from\|to\|b\?cc\):\s*'
```
The above pattern is the default if this variable isn't specified.
1. Also, if your mutt aliases file is in a different path than _${HOME}/.mutt/aliases_, you can override it in $MYVIMRC with the global variable `g:mutt_aliases`:
```
let g:mutt_aliases = '~/.mutt/aliases'
```
Again, what appears above is the default if not set explicitly to something else. Any double-quotes (`"`) and backslashes (`\`) in the mutt aliases file will be removed.
## TODO
* possibly set up some kind of trigger to post an email address from the mutt aliases file or Google Contacts, within the body of the message.
* Perform more testing!