Raymond Toy wrote:
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> Robert> demands that the BBDB format my entire database into the bbdb
> Robert> frame. This seems to take my emacs process forever. (I sit
> Robert> for a long time with "formatting"). I was thinking of
> Robert> replacing this with something that either will display nothing
> Robert> or that will display a canonical record. Just thought I would
> Robert> check to make sure there's not a good reason for the "."
> Robert> regexp above that I didn't think of.
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> I don't use a separate bbdb frame, but this might help you out a bit.
> If you use font-lock to format your bbdb buffer, you may want to get
> the package fast-lock or lazy-lock.
The reason that formatting takes so long is because you're having the whole
database formatted...then the first time you do a bbdb search, all that work
probably goes down the drain because the bbdb output buffer got erased.
The solution is amazingly simple: Instead of (bbdb "." nil), which matches
everything, use (bbdb "something-not-in-the-bbbd" nil) and you'll get an
empty new frame.
> Fast-lock caches the font-lock data so the first time you load a buffer,
> it's slow, but afterwards it's much faster.
Bzzzzzzt. The bbdb buffer is dynamically created and has no associated
file. Won't work.
> Lazy-lock just fontifies what is visible in the window, and can silently
> font-lock the rest of the buffer in the background.
BBDB doesn't use font-lock at all. Most of the work of formatting the
buffer is text layout (string stuff and buffer manipulation...not lots of
extent operations).
Stig
