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+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
+
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