--- /dev/null
+NOTE: There's no need to patch abook version 0.4.14 or later.
+NOTE2: The command in abook is 'Q' not 'P'.
+
+--- Original message from Brian Medley <brian.medley@verizon.net> ---
+Hi,
+
+I am trying to make abook work better (for me) within vim. I am doing
+this because I have 'autoedit' and 'edit_headers' set in mutt. This
+means I would like to have easy access to my abook addressbook (from
+within the editor).
+
+To accomplish this I have written a vim plugin (it will need vim 6.0)
+and have patched abook. Both are included. The patch is against abook
+0.4.13.
+
+Amongst other things, they allow me to obtain an address listing from
+abook and perform a mutt query using abook. Below is an example.
+
+Suppose I have the following line (the cursor is at the caret):
+ To:
+ ^
+I can now hit '\al' to lauch abook. Once inside, I can highlight the
+people I want to email. Then I hit 'P'. Their email addresses now
+appear. Next, suppose I have:
+ To: john
+ ^
+My plugin allows the command '\aq' to perform an alias mutt query using
+abook. It uses the word under the cursor, so "john" will be looked up
+inside of abook. Next, his email address will appear.
+
+Summary:
+ \aq => alias query
+ \al => alias list
+
+Note:
+ - \ is actually LocalLeader
+ - I am aware that abook can do these things from within *mutt*, but
+ I want to do them from within vim.
+ - This plugin does other stuff, as well (like deleting signatures,
+ and positioning the cursor when you start) because I stole code
+ from Cedric Duval's mail vimrc.
+ - Improvements / comments are welcome.
+
+Todo:
+ - Documentation :)
+ - I tried to write this so that another alias query program could be
+ used (e.g. ldap), but I have not implemented this.
+
+Bugs:
+ - I had trouble getting this to work in gvim. I used vim in a
+ console.
+
+Basic Installation:
+ - patch and install abook
+ - place the mail.vim plugin in ~/.vim/after/ftplugin
+
+--- ---
--- /dev/null
+abook (0.4.16-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * New upstream release
+ * Closes: #129867, #133482
+
+ -- Alan Ford <alan@whirlnet.co.uk> Sun, 17 Mar 2002 14:51:50 +0000
+
+abook (0.4.15-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * New upstream release. Closes: #131309
+ * Added some contrib files in /usr/share/doc/abook/
+
+ -- Alan Ford <alan@whirlnet.co.uk> Sun, 4 Nov 2001 14:50:38 +0000
+
+abook (0.4.14-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * New upstream release
+
+ -- Alan Ford <alan@whirlnet.co.uk> Sat, 29 Sep 2001 22:49:00 +0100
+
+abook (0.4.13-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * New upstream release
+
+ -- Alan Ford <alan@whirlnet.co.uk> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:16:42 +0100
+
+abook (0.4.12-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * New upstream release
+
+ -- Alan Ford <alan@whirlnet.co.uk> Tue, 20 Mar 2001 21:51:22 +0000
+
+abook (0.4.11-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * New upstream release
+
+ -- Alan Ford <alan@whirlnet.co.uk> Tue, 2 Jan 2001 17:08:46 +0000
+
+abook (0.4.10-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * New upstream release
+ * Fixes segfault bug. Closes: #70083
+
+ -- Alan Ford <alan@whirlnet.co.uk> Sat, 16 Sep 2000 09:52:19 +0100
+
+abook (0.4.9-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * New upstream release
+
+ -- Alan Ford <alan@whirlnet.co.uk> Thu, 27 Jul 2000 23:00:07 +0100
+
+abook (0.4.8-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * New upstream release
+
+ -- Alan Ford <alan@whirlnet.co.uk> Wed, 21 Jun 2000 16:33:48 +0100
+
+abook (0.4.7-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * New upstream release
+
+ -- Alan Ford <alan@whirlnet.co.uk> Sun, 28 May 2000 16:10:59 +0100
+
+abook (0.4.6-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * New upstream release
+ * Makes fields less US-specific. Closes: #62797
+
+ -- Alan Ford <alan@whirlnet.co.uk> Thu, 11 May 2000 20:03:40 +0100
+
+abook (0.4.5-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * New upstream release
+ * Removed generic INSTALL from doc directory. Closes: #62789
+
+ -- Alan Ford <alan@whirlnet.co.uk> Fri, 21 Apr 2000 11:50:59 +0100
+
+abook (0.4.4-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * New upstream release
+ * Fixes segfault bug. Closes: #62022
+
+ -- Alan Ford <alan@whirlnet.co.uk> Sun, 9 Apr 2000 10:39:06 +0100
+
+abook (0.4.3-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * New upstream release
+
+ -- Alan Ford <alan@whirlnet.co.uk> Sun, 2 Apr 2000 12:06:23 +0100
+
+abook (0.4.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ * Initial Release.
+
+ -- Alan Ford <alan@whirlnet.co.uk> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 12:38:34 +0000
+
+Local variables:
+mode: debian-changelog
+End:
--- /dev/null
+Source: abook
+Section: mail
+Priority: optional
+Maintainer: Alan Ford <alan@whirlnet.co.uk>
+Standards-Version: 3.5.6
+Build-Depends: debhelper, libncurses5-dev
+
+Package: abook
+Architecture: any
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
+Description: A text-based ncurses address book application.
+ abook is a text-based ncurses address book application. It provides many
+ different fields of user info. abook is designed for use with mutt, but
+ can be used independently.
--- /dev/null
+This package was first debianized by Alan Ford <alan@whirlnet.co.uk>
+on Sat, 18 Mar 2000 12:38:34 +0000.
+
+It was downloaded from
+http://abook.sourceforge.net/
+
+Upstream Author: Jaakko Heinonen <jheinonen@bigfoot.com>
+
+Copyright:
+
+abook is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2.
+
+On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General
+Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.
--- /dev/null
+ANNOUNCE
+AUTHORS
+BUGS
+FAQ
+README
+THANKS
+TODO
--- /dev/null
+?package(abook):needs=text section=Apps/Tools\
+ title="abook" command="/usr/bin/abook"
--- /dev/null
+#!/usr/bin/make -f
+# Sample debian/rules that uses debhelper.
+# GNU copyright 1997 to 1999 by Joey Hess.
+
+# Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
+#export DH_VERBOSE=1
+
+# This is the debhelper compatability version to use.
+export DH_COMPAT=1
+
+build: build-stamp
+build-stamp:
+ dh_testdir
+
+ ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=\$${prefix}/share/man --infodir=\$${prefix}/share/info
+ # Add here commands to compile the package.
+ $(MAKE)
+
+ touch build-stamp
+
+clean:
+ dh_testdir
+ dh_testroot
+ rm -f build-stamp
+
+ # Add here commands to clean up after the build process.
+ -$(MAKE) distclean
+
+ dh_clean
+
+install: build
+ dh_testdir
+ dh_testroot
+ dh_clean -k
+ dh_installdirs
+
+ # Add here commands to install the package into debian/tmp.
+ $(MAKE) prefix=`pwd`/debian/tmp/usr install
+
+
+# Build architecture-independent files here.
+binary-indep: build install
+# We have nothing to do by default.
+
+# Build architecture-dependent files here.
+binary-arch: build install
+# dh_testversion
+ dh_testdir
+ dh_testroot
+# dh_installdebconf
+ dh_installdocs
+ dh_installexamples sample.abookrc contrib/mail2abook.py contrib/vcard2abook.pl
+ dh_installmenu
+# dh_installemacsen
+# dh_installpam
+# dh_installinit
+ dh_installcron
+ dh_installmanpages
+ dh_installinfo
+# dh_undocumented
+ dh_installchangelogs ChangeLog
+ dh_link
+ dh_strip
+ dh_compress
+ dh_fixperms
+# dh_makeshlibs
+ dh_installdeb
+# dh_perl
+ dh_shlibdeps
+ dh_gencontrol
+ dh_md5sums
+ dh_builddeb
+
+binary: binary-indep binary-arch
+.PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary-arch binary install