On Tuesday, August 7 2001 08:19:53, Thomas E Deweese wrote:
[...]
> There are minor functionality changes, that may or may not warrent
> a name change, but 'better naming' _is_ just changing names for the
> sake of changing names.
Well, we could argue on this for quite some while.
IMHO "for the sake of changing names" means changing them
without an cause, i.e. just for fun! Changing them due to
a justified purpose is something different.
[...]
> This would let everything be specified in one var, you could use
> the list order to specify display order
I somehow like the idea, but I think it gets quite confusing
if you want to have different field orders for one-line and
multi-line layout, which is actually the default case for
BBDB.
[...]
> RF> And I like to be able configuring one-line and multi-line layout
> RF> separately.
>
> These aren't nessisarily conflicting desires, the above lets you
> configure the list of fields for each display seperately, it might
> also be nice to allow the cdr to be a function in which case you call
> it with the record and display mode and the function returns the
> string to be displayed , t (show the regular field), or 'nil skip the
> field. I might do this to shorten addresses for people in my company
> for example.
This is a nice idea, I b]put that in the todo list.
> >> > bbdb-one-line-display-fields (bbdb-elided-display-fields) list of
> >> > fields which should be displayed in one-line display
>
> >> If I add a new field interactively, I now need to add that field to
> >> this variable. This is like something that I will not remember.
>
> RF> Yes you have to add it by hand.
>
> IMHO this is _really_ _really_ bad! In general it is much better
> to show everything, and let people select what they don't want than to
> start off showing nothing and force people to add stuff if they want
> to see it (since usually they won't know what they are missing).
Ok. let me explain this: This comes from the fact that the
old BBDB behavior was to show just phone & net and I was not
about to break this.
[...]
> He is talking about 'bbdb-elided-display', I think you were
> confused by this earilier with 'bbdb-pop-up-elided-display':
To your pleasure *omit-fields* will be doing this.
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