Re: [Abook-devel] patch: mutt groups

[Fabio Z. <fab...@fa...>]

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 11:39:50PM +0200, Raphaël wrote:
> But I got more mixed results on the input filter side (unrelated to the
> use of -addr):

Note that I only parse the -group option of the mutt "alias" file, i.e.
something like:

alias -group XX nick name surname address

I do *not* parse "group" commands themselves, such as

(un)group -group XX address

because they are not supposed to be in the alias file at all. Moreover,
they use regexps which are impossible to translate into reasonable abook
searches.

> Were you able to grab the "group" fields using the "abook" export ? eg:
> $ ./abook --convert --informat=mutt --outformat=abook < ~/mutt.alias
> 
> What mutt command-line do you use to benefit from the feature ?

Yes, that line or, alternatively and equivalently, the following

./abook --convert --informat mutt --outformat abook --infile ~/mutt.alias

An example follows. The muttalias file to be parsed (only 1 entry for
simplicity):

alias -group XX -group YY given.surname Given Surname  <em...@do...>

and the above call spits out to stdout:

# abook addressbook file

[format]
program=abook
version=0.6.0pre2


[0]
name=Given Surname 
ema...@do...
nick=given.surname
groups=XX,YY

as expected. To show it, my abookrc has the following line

view OTHER = ..., groups

where ... are other fields to be displayed.

> 
> It may worth to add the "groups" field to the "allcvs" export filter
> to ease such testing and results validation.

I did not think of this, I'll have a look and let you know.

Cheers, thanks.
Fabio