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48919e0f 1;;; mailalias.el --- expand and complete mailing address aliases
6594deb0 2
e694581d 3;; Copyright (C) 1985, 1987, 1995, 1996, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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e5167999 5;; Maintainer: FSF
fd7fa35a 6;; Keywords: mail
e5167999 7
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8;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
9
10;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
11;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
e5167999 12;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
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13;; any later version.
14
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20;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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22;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
23;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
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25;;; Commentary:
26
27;; Basic functions for defining and expanding mail aliases.
28;; These seal off the interface to the alias-definition parts of a
29;; .mailrc file formatted for BSD's Mail or USL's mailx.
30
e5167999 31;;; Code:
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594906dd 33(require 'sendmail)
c2db7f31 34
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35(defgroup mailalias nil
36 "Expanding mail aliases"
37 :group 'mail)
48919e0f 38
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39(defcustom mail-passwd-files '("/etc/passwd")
40 "*List of files from which to determine valid user names."
41 :type '(repeat string)
42 :group 'mailalias)
8e3beae0 43
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44(defcustom mail-passwd-command nil
45 "*Shell command to retrieve text to add to `/etc/passwd', or nil."
46 :type '(choice string (const nil))
47 :group 'mailalias)
8e3beae0 48
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49(defvar mail-directory-names t
50 "Alist of mail address directory entries.
51When t this still needs to be initialized.")
52
53(defvar mail-address-field-regexp
54 "^\\(Resent-\\)?\\(To\\|From\\|CC\\|BCC\\|Reply-to\\):")
55
31407d5d 56(defcustom mail-complete-alist
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57 ;; Don't use backquote here; we don't want backquote to get loaded
58 ;; just because of loading this file.
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59 ;; Don't refer to mail-address-field-regexp here;
60 ;; that confuses some things such as cus-dep.el.
61 (cons '("^\\(Resent-\\)?\\(To\\|From\\|CC\\|BCC\\|Reply-to\\):"
62 . (mail-get-names pattern))
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63 '(("Newsgroups:" . (if (boundp 'gnus-active-hashtb)
64 gnus-active-hashtb
65 (if (boundp news-group-article-assoc)
66 news-group-article-assoc)))
67 ("Followup-To:" . (mail-sentto-newsgroups))
68 ;;("Distribution:" ???)
69 ))
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70 "*Alist of header field and expression to return alist for completion.
71The expression may reference the variable `pattern'
72which will hold the string being completed.
73If not on matching header, `mail-complete-function' gets called instead."
bd09e573 74 :type 'alist
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75 :group 'mailalias)
76(put 'mail-complete-alist 'risky-local-variable t)
48919e0f 77
e694581d 78;;;###autoload
31407d5d 79(defcustom mail-complete-style 'angles
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80 "*Specifies how \\[mail-complete] formats the full name when it completes.
81If `nil', they contain just the return address like:
82 king@grassland.com
83If `parens', they look like:
84 king@grassland.com (Elvis Parsley)
85If `angles', they look like:
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86 Elvis Parsley <king@grassland.com>"
87 :type '(choice (const angles) (const parens) (const nil))
88 :group 'mailalias)
48919e0f 89
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90(defcustom mail-complete-function 'ispell-complete-word
91 "*Function to call when completing outside `mail-complete-alist'-header."
92 :type '(choice function (const nil))
93 :group 'mailalias)
48919e0f 94
31407d5d 95(defcustom mail-directory-function nil
25345117 96 "*Function to get completions from directory service or nil for none.
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97See `mail-directory-requery'."
98 :type '(choice function (const nil))
99 :group 'mailalias)
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100
101;; This is for when the directory is huge, or changes frequently.
31407d5d 102(defcustom mail-directory-requery nil
25345117 103 "*When non-nil call `mail-directory-function' for each completion.
48919e0f 104In that case, one argument gets passed to the function, the partial string
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105entered so far."
106 :type 'boolean
107 :group 'mailalias)
48919e0f 108
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109(defcustom mail-directory-process nil
110 "*Shell command to get the list of names from a mail directory.
111This value is used when the value of `mail-directory-function'
112is `mail-directory-process'. The value should be a list
113of the form (COMMAND ARG ...), where each of the list elements
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114is evaluated. COMMAND should evaluate to a string. When
115`mail-directory-requery' is non-nil, during evaluation of these
116elements, the variable `pattern' contains the partial input being
117completed. `pattern' is nil when `mail-directory-requery' is nil.
48919e0f 118
31407d5d 119The value might look like this:
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120
121 '(remote-shell-program \"HOST\" \"-nl\" \"USER\" \"COMMAND\")
122
31407d5d 123or like this:
48919e0f 124
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125 '(remote-shell-program \"HOST\" \"-n\" \"COMMAND '^\" pattern \"'\")"
126 :type 'sexp
127 :group 'mailalias)
128(put 'mail-directory-process 'risky-local-variable t)
48919e0f 129
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130(defcustom mail-directory-stream nil
131 "*List of (HOST SERVICE) for stream connection to mail directory."
132 :type 'sexp
133 :group 'mailalias)
134(put 'mail-directory-stream 'risky-local-variable t)
48919e0f 135
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136(defcustom mail-directory-parser nil
137 "*How to interpret the output of `mail-directory-function'.
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138Three types of values are possible:
139
140 - nil means to gather each line as one name
141 - regexp means first \\(grouping\\) in successive matches is name
31407d5d 142 - function called at beginning of buffer that returns an alist of names"
94955307 143 :type '(choice (const nil) regexp function)
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144 :group 'mailalias)
145(put 'mail-directory-parser 'risky-local-variable t)
48919e0f 146
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147;; Internal variables.
148
149(defvar mail-names t
150 "Alist of local users, aliases and directory entries as available.
151Elements have the form (MAILNAME) or (MAILNAME . FULLNAME).
152If the value means t, it means the real value should be calculated
f6250436 153for the next use. This is used in `mail-complete'.")
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154
155(defvar mail-local-names t
156 "Alist of local users.
157When t this still needs to be initialized.")
158\f
48919e0f 159
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160;; Called from sendmail-send-it, or similar functions,
161;; only if some mail aliases are defined.
e28449ed 162;;;###autoload
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163(defun expand-mail-aliases (beg end &optional exclude)
164 "Expand all mail aliases in suitable header fields found between BEG and END.
30eaaa34 165If interactive, expand in header fields.
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166Suitable header fields are `To', `From', `CC' and `BCC', `Reply-to', and
167their `Resent-' variants.
168
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169Optional second arg EXCLUDE may be a regular expression defining text to be
170removed from alias expansions."
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171 (interactive
172 (save-excursion
173 (list (goto-char (point-min))
30eaaa34 174 (mail-header-end))))
e934d700 175 (sendmail-sync-aliases)
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176 (when (eq mail-aliases t)
177 (setq mail-aliases nil)
178 (build-mail-aliases))
179 (save-excursion
180 (goto-char beg)
181 (setq end (set-marker (make-marker) end))
182 (let ((case-fold-search nil))
183 (while (let ((case-fold-search t))
184 (re-search-forward mail-address-field-regexp end t))
185 (skip-chars-forward " \t")
186 (let ((beg1 (point))
187 end1 pos epos seplen
188 ;; DISABLED-ALIASES records aliases temporarily disabled
189 ;; while we scan text that resulted from expanding those aliases.
190 ;; Each element is (ALIAS . TILL-WHEN), where TILL-WHEN
191 ;; is where to reenable the alias (expressed as number of chars
192 ;; counting from END1).
193 (disabled-aliases nil))
194 (re-search-forward "^[^ \t]" end 'move)
195 (beginning-of-line)
196 (skip-chars-backward " \t\n")
197 (setq end1 (point-marker))
198 (goto-char beg1)
199 (while (< (point) end1)
200 (setq pos (point))
201 ;; Reenable any aliases which were disabled for ranges
202 ;; that we have passed out of.
203 (while (and disabled-aliases
204 (> pos (- end1 (cdr (car disabled-aliases)))))
205 (setq disabled-aliases (cdr disabled-aliases)))
206 ;; EPOS gets position of end of next name;
207 ;; SEPLEN gets length of whitespace&separator that follows it.
208 (if (re-search-forward "[ \t]*[\n,][ \t]*" end1 t)
209 (setq epos (match-beginning 0)
210 seplen (- (point) epos))
211 (setq epos (marker-position end1) seplen 0))
212 (let ((string (buffer-substring-no-properties pos epos))
213 translation)
214 (if (and (not (assoc string disabled-aliases))
215 (setq translation (cdr (assoc string mail-aliases))))
216 (progn
217 ;; This name is an alias. Disable it.
218 (setq disabled-aliases (cons (cons string (- end1 epos))
219 disabled-aliases))
220 ;; Replace the alias with its expansion
221 ;; then rescan the expansion for more aliases.
222 (goto-char pos)
223 (insert translation)
224 (when exclude
225 (let ((regexp (concat "\\b\\(" exclude "\\)\\b"))
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226 (end (point-marker)))
227 (goto-char pos)
228 (while (re-search-forward regexp end t)
229 (replace-match ""))
230 (goto-char end)))
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231 (delete-region (point) (+ (point) (- epos pos)))
232 (goto-char pos))
233 ;; Name is not an alias. Skip to start of next name.
234 (goto-char epos)
235 (forward-char seplen))))
236 (set-marker end1 nil)))
237 (set-marker end nil))))
80a677d9 238
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239;; Called by mail-setup, or similar functions, only if the file specified
240;; by mail-personal-alias-file (usually `~/.mailrc') exists.
80a677d9 241(defun build-mail-aliases (&optional file)
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242 "Read mail aliases from personal aliases file and set `mail-aliases'.
243By default, this is the file specified by `mail-personal-alias-file'."
244 (setq file (expand-file-name (or file mail-personal-alias-file)))
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245 ;; In case mail-aliases is t, make sure define-mail-alias
246 ;; does not recursively call build-mail-aliases.
247 (setq mail-aliases nil)
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248 (let ((buffer nil)
249 (obuf (current-buffer)))
250 (unwind-protect
251 (progn
48919e0f 252 (setq buffer (generate-new-buffer " mailrc"))
80a677d9 253 (set-buffer buffer)
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254 (while file
255 (cond ((get-file-buffer file)
256 (insert (save-excursion
257 (set-buffer (get-file-buffer file))
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258 (buffer-substring-no-properties
259 (point-min) (point-max)))))
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260 ((file-exists-p file) (insert-file-contents file))
261 ((file-exists-p (setq file (concat "~/" file)))
262 (insert-file-contents file))
263 (t (setq file nil)))
264 ;; Don't lose if no final newline.
265 (goto-char (point-max))
266 (or (eq (preceding-char) ?\n) (newline))
267 (goto-char (point-min))
268 ;; handle "\\\n" continuation lines
269 (while (not (eobp))
270 (end-of-line)
271 (if (= (preceding-char) ?\\)
272 (progn (delete-char -1) (delete-char 1) (insert ?\ ))
80a677d9 273 (forward-char 1)))
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274 (goto-char (point-min))
275 ;; handle `source' directives -- Eddy/1994/May/25
276 (cond ((re-search-forward "^source[ \t]+" nil t)
277 (re-search-forward "\\S-+")
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278 (setq file (buffer-substring-no-properties
279 (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)))
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280 (beginning-of-line)
281 (insert "# ") ; to ensure we don't re-process this file
282 (beginning-of-line))
283 (t (setq file nil))))
80a677d9 284 (goto-char (point-min))
d9817d8c 285 (while (re-search-forward
c051dfe5 286 "^\\(a\\|alias\\|g\\|group\\)[ \t]+\\([^ \t\n]+\\)" nil t)
d9817d8c 287 (let* ((name (match-string 2))
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288 (start (progn (skip-chars-forward " \t") (point)))
289 value)
80a677d9 290 (end-of-line)
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291 (setq value (buffer-substring-no-properties start (point)))
292 (unless (equal value "")
293 (define-mail-alias name value t))))
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294 mail-aliases)
295 (if buffer (kill-buffer buffer))
296 (set-buffer obuf))))
297
298;; Always autoloadable in case the user wants to define aliases
299;; interactively or in .emacs.
7229064d 300;;;###autoload
37e379dd 301(defun define-mail-alias (name definition &optional from-mailrc-file)
96846422 302 "Define NAME as a mail alias that translates to DEFINITION.
80a677d9 303This means that sending a message to NAME will actually send to DEFINITION.
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304
305Normally, the addresses in DEFINITION must be separated by commas.
a1506d29 306If FROM-MAILRC-FILE is non-nil, then addresses in DEFINITION
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307can be separated by spaces; an address can contain spaces
308if it is quoted with double-quotes."
309
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310 (interactive "sDefine mail alias: \nsDefine %s as mail alias for: ")
311 ;; Read the defaults first, if we have not done so.
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312 ;; But not if we are doing that already right now.
313 (unless from-mailrc-file
314 (sendmail-sync-aliases))
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315 (if (eq mail-aliases t)
316 (progn
317 (setq mail-aliases nil)
9d73ab0d 318 (if (file-exists-p mail-personal-alias-file)
80a677d9 319 (build-mail-aliases))))
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320 ;; strip garbage from front and end
321 (if (string-match "\\`[ \t\n,]+" definition)
aa228418 322 (setq definition (substring definition (match-end 0))))
3af1a1f3 323 (if (string-match "[ \t\n,]+\\'" definition)
aa228418 324 (setq definition (substring definition 0 (match-beginning 0))))
37e379dd 325 (let ((result '())
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326 ;; If DEFINITION is null string, avoid looping even once.
327 (start (and (not (equal definition "")) 0))
37e379dd 328 (L (length definition))
255359cb 329 convert-backslash
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330 end tem)
331 (while start
255359cb 332 (setq convert-backslash nil)
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333 ;; If we're reading from the mailrc file, then addresses are delimited
334 ;; by spaces, and addresses with embedded spaces must be surrounded by
335 ;; double-quotes. Otherwise, addresses are separated by commas.
336 (if from-mailrc-file
337 (if (eq ?\" (aref definition start))
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338 ;; The following test on `found' compensates for a bug
339 ;; in match-end, which does not return nil when match
340 ;; failed.
341 (let ((found (string-match "[^\\]\\(\\([\\][\\]\\)*\\)\"[ \t,]*"
342 definition start)))
343 (setq start (1+ start)
344 end (and found (match-end 1))
345 convert-backslash t))
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346 (setq end (string-match "[ \t,]+" definition start)))
347 (setq end (string-match "[ \t\n,]*,[ \t\n,]*" definition start)))
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348 (let ((temp (substring definition start end))
349 (pos 0))
350 (setq start (and end
351 (/= (match-end 0) L)
352 (match-end 0)))
353 (if convert-backslash
354 (while (string-match "[\\]" temp pos)
355 (setq temp (replace-match "" t t temp))
a1506d29 356 (if start
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357 (setq start (1- start)))
358 (setq pos (match-end 0))))
359 (setq result (cons temp result))))
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360 (setq definition (mapconcat (function identity)
361 (nreverse result)
362 ", "))
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363 (setq tem (assoc name mail-aliases))
364 (if tem
365 (rplacd tem definition)
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366 (setq mail-aliases (cons (cons name definition) mail-aliases)
367 mail-names t))))
368
c0fd4267 369;;;###autoload
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370(defun mail-complete (arg)
371 "Perform completion on header field or word preceding point.
372Completable headers are according to `mail-complete-alist'. If none matches
373current header, calls `mail-complete-function' and passes prefix arg if any."
374 (interactive "P")
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375 ;; Read the defaults first, if we have not done so.
376 (sendmail-sync-aliases)
377 (if (eq mail-aliases t)
378 (progn
379 (setq mail-aliases nil)
380 (if (file-exists-p mail-personal-alias-file)
381 (build-mail-aliases))))
48919e0f 382 (let ((list mail-complete-alist))
baaddce7 383 (if (and (< 0 (mail-header-end))
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384 (save-excursion
385 (if (re-search-backward "^[^\t]" nil t)
386 (while list
387 (if (looking-at (car (car list)))
388 (setq arg (cdr (car list))
389 list ())
390 (setq list (cdr list)))))
391 arg))
392 (let* ((end (point))
393 (beg (save-excursion
394 (skip-chars-backward "^ \t<,:")
395 (point)))
396 (pattern (buffer-substring beg end))
397 completion)
398 (setq list (eval arg)
399 completion (try-completion pattern list))
400 (cond ((eq completion t))
401 ((null completion)
402 (message "Can't find completion for \"%s\"" pattern)
403 (ding))
404 ((not (string= pattern completion))
405 (delete-region beg end)
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406 (let ((alist-elt (assoc completion mail-names)))
407 (if (cdr alist-elt)
408 (cond ((eq mail-complete-style 'parens)
409 (insert completion " (" (cdr alist-elt) ")"))
410 ((eq mail-complete-style 'angles)
411 (insert (cdr alist-elt) " <" completion ">"))
412 (t
413 (insert completion)))
414 (insert completion))))
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415 (t
416 (message "Making completion list...")
417 (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Completions*"
418 (display-completion-list
419 (all-completions pattern list)))
420 (message "Making completion list...%s" "done"))))
421 (funcall mail-complete-function arg))))
422
423(defun mail-get-names (pattern)
e694581d 424 "Fetch local users and global mail addresses for completion.
48919e0f 425Consults `/etc/passwd' and a directory service if one is set up via
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426`mail-directory-function'.
427PATTERN is the string we want to complete."
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428 (if (eq mail-local-names t)
429 (save-excursion
430 (set-buffer (generate-new-buffer " passwd"))
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431 (let ((files mail-passwd-files))
432 (while files
433 (insert-file-contents (car files) nil nil nil t)
434 (setq files (cdr files))))
435 (if mail-passwd-command
436 (call-process shell-file-name nil t nil
437 shell-command-switch mail-passwd-command))
637502c3 438 (goto-char (point-min))
8e3beae0 439 (setq mail-local-names nil)
48919e0f 440 (while (not (eobp))
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441 ;;Recognize lines like
442 ;; nobody:*:65534:65534::/:
443 ;; +demo::::::/bin/csh
444 ;; +ethanb
445 ;;while skipping
446 ;; +@SOFTWARE
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447 ;; The second \(...\) matches the user id.
448 (if (looking-at "\\+?\\([^:@\n+]+\\):[^:\n]*:\\([^\n:]*\\):")
449 (add-to-list 'mail-local-names
450 (cons (match-string 1)
451 (user-full-name
027a4b6b 452 (string-to-number (match-string 2))))))
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453 (beginning-of-line 2))
454 (kill-buffer (current-buffer))))
455 (if (or (eq mail-names t)
e694581d 456 (eq mail-directory-names t))
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457 (let (directory)
458 (and mail-directory-function
459 (eq mail-directory-names t)
460 (setq directory
461 (mail-directory (if mail-directory-requery pattern))))
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462 (or mail-directory-requery
463 (setq mail-directory-names directory))
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464 (if (or directory
465 (eq mail-names t))
466 (setq mail-names
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467 (sort (append (if (consp mail-aliases)
468 (mapcar
469 (function (lambda (a) (list (car a))))
470 mail-aliases))
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471 (if (consp mail-local-names)
472 mail-local-names)
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473 (or directory
474 (when (consp mail-directory-names)
475 mail-directory-names)))
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476 (lambda (a b)
477 ;; should cache downcased strings
478 (string< (downcase (car a))
e694581d 479 (downcase (car b)))))))))
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480 mail-names)
481
482
483(defun mail-directory (pattern)
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484 "Use mail-directory facility to get user names matching PATTERN.
485If PATTERN is nil, get all the defined user names.
486This function calls `mail-directory-function' to query the directory,
487then uses `mail-directory-parser' to parse the output it returns."
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488 (save-excursion
489 (message "Querying directory...")
490 (set-buffer (generate-new-buffer " *mail-directory*"))
491 (funcall mail-directory-function pattern)
492 (goto-char 1)
493 (let (directory)
494 (if (stringp mail-directory-parser)
495 (while (re-search-forward mail-directory-parser nil t)
496 (setq directory
e694581d 497 (cons (match-string 1) directory)))
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498 (if mail-directory-parser
499 (setq directory (funcall mail-directory-parser))
500 (while (not (eobp))
501 (setq directory
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502 (cons (buffer-substring (point)
503 (progn
504 (forward-line)
505 (if (bolp)
506 (1- (point))
507 (point))))
508 directory)))))
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509 (kill-buffer (current-buffer))
510 (message "Querying directory...done")
511 directory)))
512
513
514(defun mail-directory-process (pattern)
31407d5d 515 "Run a shell command to output names in directory.
48919e0f 516See `mail-directory-process'."
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517 (when (consp mail-directory-process)
518 (apply 'call-process (eval (car mail-directory-process)) nil t nil
519 (mapcar 'eval (cdr mail-directory-process)))))
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520
521;; This should handle a dialog. Currently expects port to spit out names.
522(defun mail-directory-stream (pattern)
523 "Open a stream to retrieve names in directory.
524See `mail-directory-stream'."
525 (let (mailalias-done)
526 (set-process-sentinel
527 (apply 'open-network-stream "mailalias" (current-buffer)
528 mail-directory-stream)
906f211e 529 (lambda (x y)
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530 (setq mailalias-done t)))
531 (while (not mailalias-done)
532 (sit-for .1))))
533
534(defun mail-sentto-newsgroups ()
535 "Return all entries from Newsgroups: header as completion alist."
536 (save-excursion
537 (if (mail-position-on-field "newsgroups" t)
538 (let ((point (point))
539 list)
540 (while (< (skip-chars-backward "^:, \t\n") 0)
541 (setq list `((,(buffer-substring (point) point))
542 ,@list))
543 (skip-chars-backward ", \t\n")
544 (setq point (point)))
545 list))))
6594deb0 546
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547(provide 'mailalias)
548
ab5796a9 549;;; arch-tag: 1d6a0f87-eb34-4d45-8816-60c1b952cf46
6594deb0 550;;; mailalias.el ends here