Variable: mail-complete-style

mail-complete-style is a customizable variable defined in mailalias.el.gz.

Value

angles

Documentation

Specifies how M-x mail-complete (mail-complete) formats the full name when it completes.

If nil, they contain just the return address like:
king@grassland.com
If parens, they look like:
king@grassland.com (Elvis Parsley)
If angles, they look like:
Elvis Parsley <king@grassland.com>

Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 20.1.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/mail/mailalias.el.gz
;;;###autoload
(defcustom mail-complete-style 'angles
  "Specifies how \\[mail-complete] formats the full name when it completes.
If nil, they contain just the return address like:
	king@grassland.com
If `parens', they look like:
	king@grassland.com (Elvis Parsley)
If `angles', they look like:
	Elvis Parsley <king@grassland.com>"
  :type '(choice (const angles) (const parens) (const nil))
  :group 'mailalias)