{"id":257,"date":"2015-05-17T00:09:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T04:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/?p=257"},"modified":"2015-05-17T00:12:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T04:12:58","slug":"eudc-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"EUDC Improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I use Emacs Unified Directory Client (EUDC) for completing email addresses from LDAP and BBDB databases.  It&#8217;s nice to be able to complete names from LDAP when composing emails, obviously, but it&#8217;s also nice in Org mode to <code>M-x eudc-expand-inline<\/code> someone&#8217;s name into my notes.<\/p>\n<p>When I first configured the EUDC LDAP backend for my environment &#8212; RHEL 6 <code>ldapsearch<\/code>, LDAP-over-SSL server &#8212; setup was very involved.  There were lots of poor defaults, strange extra configuration files, function call requirements, and <code>ldapsearch<\/code> incompatibilities.  <a href=\"http:\/\/emacswiki.org\/emacs\/EUDC\">EmacsWiki<\/a> instructions were very long just to get sane &#8220;Givenname Surname &lt;email@address&gt;&#8221; completion in GNUS.<\/p>\n<p>I filed a bug report with configuration simplifications, bug fixes and EUDC Info manual updates, and somehow I ended up as the EUDC maintainer.  I&#8217;ve committed the improvements to the Emacs master branch; they&#8217;ll be released in Emacs 25.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve tried EUDC in the past and been turned off by its arcane configuration, you might want to re-read the &#8220;LDAP Configuration&#8221; section of the Info manual, and try again.  If you still can&#8217;t get it working, file a bug report at <a href=\"https:\/\/lists.gnu.org\/mailman\/listinfo\/bug-gnu-emacs\">bug-gnu-emacs<\/a> and I&#8217;ll try to respond to it within a few days.  Mention EUDC or LDAP in the subject of the report.  Likewise, if you do get it working with hacks then let me know via a bug report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use Emacs Unified Directory Client (EUDC) for completing email addresses from LDAP and BBDB databases. It&#8217;s nice to be able to complete names from LDAP when composing emails, obviously, but it&#8217;s also nice in Org mode to M-x eudc-expand-inline someone&#8217;s name into my notes. When I first configured the EUDC LDAP backend for my &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/?p=257\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;EUDC Improvements&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emacs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}