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[linuxcaffe]

Hi Mauro!
I'd like to try and use abook-vim, but frankly, I don't know enough vim-scripting to figure out how to use it.

I'm imagining an integration with vim-taskwarrior (https://github.com/farseer90718/vim-taskwarrior) so that when looking at a task to "call Nancy about dog-sitting" with the cursor over the task hit vim-taskwarrior keybinding "C" for contacts (doesn't exist yet) it would cross-reference tags and description, looking for upper-cased words (like Nancy) and would call the abook-vim command :Contact (also imaginary) which displays all matching contacts. This behavior would be part of vim-taskwarrior, using abook-vim.

Maybe a "few" associated commands would help;

:Contact [args]
to display all matching contact details
:ContactPhone [args]
to show all available phone numbers
:ContactHome [args]
to show home phone#
:ContactMobile [args]
to show mobile phone#
:ContactWork [args]
to show work phone#
:ContactEmail [args]
to show email address
:ContactWeb [args]
to show URL
:ContactAddress [args]
to show street address, and
:ContactNotes [args]
to show any associated notes

I don't know if this would work for you, but I'm pretty sure it would work for me!

mille grazie!

[linuxcaffe]

I'm imagining behavior for :Contact [no-args](and imagining that you'll implement this ;-) to be something like this;

:Contact [no-args] first tries to look up the word under the cursor. Failing that (no matches) it should then scan the line left-to-right for the first Capitalized word. If such a word is found, the command then looks to see if the following word is also capitalized, and if so, it triesto match both of those words. Here's an example line from a taskwarrior task in vim-taskwarrior;

 41 10wk friend  BPaton 20m call Bill Paton  1.19

so with the cursor on that line the command would

a) try BPaton and fail
b) try "Bill Paton" and succeed, not matching Bill Smith, or Bill Wood

as an extra bit of fanciness, after finding Cap Words and locating a (single) match, the command could look at the (uncapitalized) word immediately before the matched word(s) to see if a specific action should be taken, like "email Nancy Brown" would find the match for the name, and then deliver :ContactEmail.

crazy? you tell me :)

[cinghiopinghio]

Hi David,
First of all thanks for the feedback and I'm happy my small scripts can be useful to someone else.
Sorry for the delay, I don't visit this github often.

The command you are looking for already exists in the Unite implementation:
:Unite abook -input=[args]
where the args variable should be at least three characters long to trigger the search.
Unfortunately at the moment it only works form mail addresses as it is intended to be used in mutt while adding
more addresses to the header of a mail.
Moreover the abook application doesn't provide a command line search for terms that are not a mail address (like
phone number, etc.) and it provide them in the form Real Name <email@server.ext>.

For the implementation of the 'search the terms under the cursor' this is out of my ability at the moment. If
you can provide a function that trigger the command checking the word under the cursor i will try to add it to
the plugin.