Homepage: https://github.com/redguard/counsel-bbdb
Author: Chen Bin
Updated:
Quick search&input email from BBDB based on Emacs API `completing-read'
Input email address from BBDB efficiently using Emacs API `completing-read'.
Smart to know some ethic groups whose family name is before given name.
Since it does not use any API from `bbdb', it's always fast and stable.
`M-x counsel-bbdb-complete-mail' to input email address.
`M-x counsel-bbdb-reload' to reload contacts from BBDB database.
`M-x counsel-bbdb-expand-mail-alias' to expand mail alias. Mail Alias
is also called "Contact Group" or "Address Book Group" in other email clients.
You can customize `counsel-bbdb-customized-insert' to insert
email in your own way:
(setq counsel-bbdb-customized-insert
(lambda (r append-comma)
(let* ((family-name (nth 1 r))
(given-name (nth 2 r))
(display-name (nth 3 r))
(mail (nth 4 r))))
(insert (format "%s:%s:%s:%s%s"
given-name
family-name
display-name
mail
(if append-comma ", " " ")))))