On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 5:56 PM, Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> wrote: > On 16Mar2016 22:10, Xu Wang <xuwang...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On my keyboard I do not have the character é. But I would like to be >> respectful to spell the name as they prefer so I want to keep the >> abook entry name as José. But problem is that in mutt when I do "Jose" >> it does not match. I can do "Jos" but sometimes I forget and in other >> cases "Jos" might lead to many cases. >> >> Does anyone approach a solution for this? > > > I've just had a quick play with abook. It looks like "abook --mutt-query" > consults the nickname in addition to the name and email. So you might set > José's nickname to "jose" and have abook find a match. > > It appears not to look in the "notes" section, which was my other attempt.
This works well and I am fine with this solution. I had searched google before for how to use aliases but I could not find results. However, thanks to you I just opened abook directly and went to "other" tab and indeed there is nick. Or easier for many is you can just add "nick=" directly to data text file. It indeed is searched when query. And I think it makes sense that notes is not searched (although maybe there is option)? Thank you for this solution and for your time spent on helping me. It is great! Kind regards, Xu
