>>>>> "PF" == patrick finerty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PF> hi, i just installed the latest release (2.32). BBDB still wants
PF> to change names such "Patrick J. Finerty" to "Patrick J Finerty"
PF> (note the missing '.' after the middle initial).
PF> additionally, when encountering a new person using the above name
PF> style (middle initial followed by a '.') bbdb silently strips the
PF> '.' and adds the person to the db.
PF> is this supposed to be standard behaviour? are '.' after middle
PF> initials out of style now?
I believe this is caused by the switch to using bbdb-snarf.
I just went through this myself. What I did was the following:
;; Remove '.' from the regexp of stuff to drop out of names when snarfing.
(setq bbdb-snarf-nice-real-name-regexp "[_,\t\n ]+")
;; Add some cases specific to mail addresses around here.
(setq bbdb-extract-address-component-regexps
'(;; "'surname, firstname'" <address> from Outlookers
("\"'\\([^\"]*\\)'\"\\s-*<\\([^>]+\\)>"
(bbdb-snarf-nice-real-name (match-string 1 adstring)) 2)
;; "name" <address>
("\"\\([^\"]*\\)\"\\s-*<\\([^>]+\\)>"
(bbdb-snarf-nice-real-name (match-string 1 adstring)) 2)
;; name <address>
("\\(\\b[^<\",]*\\b\\)\\s-*<\\([^>]+\\)>"
1 2)
;; <address>
("<\\([^>]+\\)>" nil 2)
;; address (name)
("\\(\\b[^<\",()]+\\b\\)\\s-*(\\([^)]+\\))"
2 1)
;; firstname_lastname%junk@host
("\\b\\([^%]+\\_[^%]+\\)%[^@]*\\(@[0-9a-z._-]+\\)\\b"
(bbdb-snarf-nice-real-name (match-string 1 adstring))
(concat (match-string 1 adstring) (match-string 2 adstring)))
;; firstname_lastname@host
("\\b\\(\\([^@]+\\_[^@]+\\)@[0-9a-z._-]+\\)\\b"
(bbdb-snarf-nice-real-name (match-string 2 adstring)) 1)
;; firstname.lastname@host
("\\b\\(\\([^@]+\\.[^@]+\\)@[0-9a-z._-]+\\)\\b"
(bbdb-snarf-nice-real-name (match-string 2 adstring)) 1)
;; user@host
("\\b\\(\\([0-9a-z._-]+\\)@[0-9a-z._-]+\\)\\b"
nil 1)
;; local address
("\\b\\([0-9a-z._-]+\\)\\b"
nil 1)
))
By playing with the two, you should be able to get what ever
results you desire.
I'm sure '.' was added for the firstname.lastname@host case.
Although I'm not certain this is fully warrented, since that is
handled specially.
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