Anantha Padmanabha N. Srirama writes:
> Folks,
> In my previous message I forgot to mention the circumstances under
> which the corruption occurred. Here is the scenario which caused the
> corruption:
>
> - Somehow .bbdb buffer makes it to the top of the buffer stack thus
> leaving the cursor in it.
> - Unknowingly I type in a character into this buffer then switch to
> other buffers and continue with my work.
> - It is time to exit the 'emacs' session and I answer YES to the
> question of whter to save the .bbdb buffer. Emacs promptly saves
> this buffer. Now the next time around I am hosed when I try to bring
> up BBDB.
>
> Also is there someway of opening a file in Emacs but not have it
> available for interactive editing. If such a facility were available
> then BBDB could open the .bbdb file in this mode so one cannot edit
> or corrupt this file by accident.
I agree. I think it is annoying and dangerous that the .bbdb file
is an editable in the buffer list. I wish it wasn't in the buffer
list at all!
Another thing I find annoying is how addresses are auto-completed.
Generally, I may have one address that should always be the sending
address to a given person. However, I may have several addresses
listed as *they* may send mail to me from other machines. Now when
I do auto-completion on an address I'm sending to, I have to
differentiate between that various addresses.
I think it would be useful if auto-completion only considered the
default address of each entry. (Unless, there is no completion?)
Just a thought...
Ray
