1 Overview
EUDC, the Emacs Unified Directory Client, provides a common user
interface to access directory servers using different directory
protocols.
Currently supported back-ends are:
- LDAP, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
- BBDB, Big Brother’s Insidious Database
- macOS Contacts
ecomplete, Emacs’s electrical completion
mailabbrev, Emacs’s abbrev-expansion of mail aliases
The main features of the EUDC interface are:
- Queries using a customizable form
- Inline query expansion (for instance you can expand a name
to an email address in a mail message buffer using a server as an
address book)
- Multiple servers can be tried in turn until a match is found for an
inline query
- Fast minibuffer queries for email addresses and phone numbers
- Interface to BBDB to let you insert server records into your own BBDB database
(see BBDB in BBDB Manual)