From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:15:22 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: emacs tips: google contacts as address book via goobook
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emacs tips: google contacts as address book via goobook
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diff --git a/emacstips.mdwn b/emacstips.mdwn
index 070edba..ef96e00 100644
--- a/emacstips.mdwn
+++ b/emacstips.mdwn
@@ -340,12 +340,16 @@ emacswiki.
 
 ## <span id="address_completion">Address completion when composing</span>
 
-There are currently two solutions to this:
+There are currently three solutions to this:
+
+### bbdb
 
 [bbdb](http://bbdb.sourceforge.net) is a contact database for emacs
 that works quite nicely together with message mode, including
 address autocompletion.
 
+### notmuch database as an address book
+
 You can also use the notmuch database as a mail address book itself.
 To do this you need a command line tool that outputs likely address
 candidates based on a search string.  There are currently three
@@ -374,6 +378,19 @@ You can perform tab-completion using any of these programs. Just add the followi
         (setq notmuch-address-command "/path/to/address_fetching_program")
         (notmuch-address-message-insinuate)
 
+### Google Contacts
+
+[GooBook](http://code.google.com/p/goobook/) is a command-line tool for
+accessing Google Contacts. Install and set it up according to its documentation.
+
+To use GooBook with notmuch, use this wrapper script and set it up like the
+programs above.
+
+        #!/bin/sh
+        goobook query "$*" | sed 's/\(.*\)\t\(.*\)\t.*/\2 \<\1\>/' | sed '/^$/d'
+
+You can add the sender of a message to Google Contacts by piping the message
+(`notmuch-show-pipe-message`) to `goobook add`.
 
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