[Users] reply-template question (again)

[Uwe Fritz]

Hello wwp,

> I use a set of custom scripts to determine what's the introducing

this sounds very interesting to me. Would you mind to share this
scripts?

Anyway, is there a place to share scripts like this?

On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:13:47 +0100
wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote:

> Hello Michael,
> 
> 
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:05:34 +0100 Michael <codejodler at gmx.ch> wrote:
> 
> > In Prefs -> Writing -> Reply, i have 
> > 
> > ?ABf{%ABf,}!ABf{%F,}
> > %X
> > %q
> > 
> > The problem is, if it si a friend, i wanted to reply with first
> > name only. As a rough indicator, friends usually have nickname
> > field in addressbook, or, at least, separate first / last names.
> > With business contacts, i usually don't bother to edit these fields
> > at all.
> > 
> > Thus the reply would look like
> > 
> > Hello Peter # for a friend
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > Dear Mr. President # for someone who's name is like "Homer LVII.
> > President")
> > 
> > So my question is, can i have addressbook completion 'From' but
> > with the first name, or (better) the nickname, if exists, and with
> > last name otherwise ?
> 
> You cannot tune the addressbook completion, unless you modify the
> contact data itself.
> 
> I use a set of custom scripts to determine what's the introducing (Hi
> Michael, Hello M. President) and goodbye (Regards, Ciao) politeness
> formulae. Those scripts perform a switch/case according to the account
> and some few exceptions because some From have inverted 1st/last
> names, and are called by the compose/reply templates.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 


best regards,
Uwe