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# asyncomplete-muttgoobook.vim
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A vim plugin for mail files to select email addresses from the mutt aliases file, and Google Contacts (using goobook).
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## Prerequisites
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* This has been tested with the [vim-plug](https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug) minimalist Vim plugin manager. Other plugin managers may work.
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* 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.
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* [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+.
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* This is designed to work in mutt, but is not mutt-specific (except for reading _${HOME}/.mutt/aliases_). Using vim to edit the file type `mail` should be enough to get it working.
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As of this writing (2023-04-30), this has only been tested in Vim v9, but is also writtin in Vim v8 script so should work in older versions.
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## Installation
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1. Clone this repository into your Vim plugin directory. For vim-plug in Vim on Linux, this is usually _${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()`:
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```vim
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call plug#begin('...')
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" ...
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Plug 'https://git.eldon.me/trey/asyncomplete-muttgoobook.vim'
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" ...
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call plug#end()
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```
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Then, inside Vim, run `:PlugInstall`. You can check that the muttgoobook plugin is installed successfully with `:PlugStatus`.
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1. Configure Vim in $MYVIMRC to load the `muttgoobook` source using the following:
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```vim
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autocmd User asyncomplete_setup call asyncomplete#register_source({
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\ 'name': 'muttgoobook',
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\ 'allowlist': ['mail'],
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\ 'completor': function('asyncomplete#sources#muttgoobook#completor'),
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\ })
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```
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If you want to have other file types to use this plugin, you may add them to the `allowlist` above.
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1. By default, this plugin tries to determine if the cursor is in an email
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address field ('From:', 'To:', 'Cc:', 'Bcc:', in English). The matching is
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case-insensitive. If you use another language, that names these fields
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differently, you can modify this in $MYVIMRC by adding the
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`g:muttgoobook_address_fields` global variable. This is designed to be a
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Vim regular expression, replace `['from', 'to', 'b\?cc']` accordingly:
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```vim
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let g:muttgoobook_address_fields = '^\s*\(from\|to\|b\?cc\):\s*'
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```
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The above pattern is the default if this variable isn't specified.
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1. Also, if your mutt aliases file is in a different path than
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_${HOME}/.mutt/aliases_, you can override it in $MYVIMRC with the global
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variable `g:mutt_aliases`: ```vim let g:mutt_aliases = '~/.mutt/aliases'
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```
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Again, what appears above is the default if not set explicitly to
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something else. Any double-quotes (`"`) and backslashes (`\`) in the mutt
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aliases file will be removed before pasting the results of the completion
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to the currently edited mail file.
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## How to use it
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If asyncomplete is installed correctly and is working, editing
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a file type of `mail` should show the popup completion menu after you've typed
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the first three characters of the name or email address, as long as the cursor
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is in a `From:`, `To:`, `Cc:`, or `Bcc` field. Case doesn't matter for the
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name of the address field, and the cursor can be in a multi-line list of
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names/email addresses.
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The listing of the popup completion menu will show mutt aliases and names from
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goobook that match the string entered thus far. You can further limit the
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results returned in the popup completion menu by typing more characters.
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Select the alias or name and press `Enter`, and the value from the alias will
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be pasted (for mutt aliases), and the name and email address from Google
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Contacts (goobook). Values from mutt aliases will be pasted verbatim except
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backslashes (`\`) and double-quotes (`"`) will be removed. Email addresses
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from goobook will appear between angle brackets (`<` and `>`).
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## TODO
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* possibly set up some kind of trigger to post an email address from the mutt
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aliases file or Google Contacts, within the body of the message.
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* Maybe integrate with other CLI contact services, but the project may need to
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be renamed
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* Perform more testing!
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