sacha chua :: enterprise 2.0 consultant, storyteller, geek » elispI help people connect through blogs, wikis, other Web 2.0 tools. I'm also writing a book about Emacs.Emacs BBDB magic: Greeting people with nicknames- July 20, 2006 I use Gnus to read my mail within the Emacs text editor. One of the advantages of using a mail client that's infinitely programmable is that you can add all sorts of little tweaks to it. Gnus can be integrated with Emacs' Big Brother Database (BBDB), a semi-structured text database in which I store all sorts of weird notes. This little hack takes the nick field of the database and automatically inserts a greeting. If someone signs himself as Mikong, I should call him that instead of Joseph...http://sachachua.com/wp/2006/07/20/emacs-bbdb-magic-greeting-people-with-nicknames/ |