Re: Gnus: How to easily change "From:" from the default to a second account's address?

[Johnny]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> On Sat, Nov 26 2011, Philipp Haselwarter wrote:
>
>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 25 2011, Philipp Haselwarter wrote:
>>>
>>>> I often find myself wanting to change the From: after opening the
>>>> message; this allows picking one of your accounts:
>>>
>>> Is this much different from `message-alternative-emails'? I think that's
>>> what I use to set my possible From addresses, and then TAB at the end of
>>> the address will cycle through the possible addresses.
>>>
>> I didn't know about `message-alternative-emails', and setting From: from
>> To: or Cc: works nicely :) !
>>
>> But I can't seem to cycle. 
> 
> [...] I suspect it's BBDB that provides cycling.

I don't use the `message-alternative-emails' at all, and I am quite sure
the cycling is provided by BBDB (3.02) by matching my records `mail'
field. These are the likely candidates to use in your .gnus.el file:

,----
| (setq bbdb-complete-name-allow-cycling t)
| (setq bbdb-complete-mail-allow-cycling t)
`----

-- 
Johnny