org-contacts help with groups defined by org-mode tags
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brittAnderson · 2022-06-06 20:29

I quite like `org-contacts` for use with `gnus`. One problem I always
had was that to use the mail to groups functionality (where everyone
with a particular tag, e.g. `:family:` in my
[`contacts.org`](https://contacts.org) file would get added to an
email "to" line) I had to disable `helm-mode` type "+fam" and <tab>,
and then, if I remembered, re-enable `helm-mode`. I didn't have to do
this a lot, but it was nice when I needed it. Now with the org-
contacts from 6 June 2022 this no longer works. I get an error message
because instead of a string of names and emails I am getting a
function. For example,  `#("Father <fatherMadeUpAddress@family.ca>,
Mother <motherMadeUpAddress@family.ca" 0 9 (face org-level-1 fontified
t) 31 48 (face org-level-1 fontified t))`

The names and addresses are in there if I could just get them out of
that function. I think there is a `message-tab-function` I could use.
Any suggestions from people who have already solved this issue, or
would like to give me suggestions for how I might try? If people want
to lobby for alternatives to org-contacts I am open to suggestions.
Thanks.

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organic-bookworm · 2022-06-07 10:58

>I get an error message because instead of a string of names and
emails I am getting a function. For example [...]

Your example is [a special read syntax for a string with text properti
es](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Text-
Props-and-Strings.html), not a function.