A few little things I noticed while prepping bbdb-expire-1.5... - `bbdb-update-records' has this chatty little `updating of records finished' message, which is rendered almost useless by the fact that in BBDB's default config and in every other one I was able to find using a pop-up BBDB window in Gnus, the `updating' message happens whenever a record is displayed... (and this isn't related to bbdb-expire's updating of every record you see; it happens when bbdb-expire isn't loaded, too. But maybe it's caused by something else I have hooked somewhere... my Gnus config is a mass of hooks.)
- `bbdb-display-layout-alist' is a wonderful invention but its docstring could do with improvement. It mentions the `full-multi-line' layout but doesn't define it, which is good because nothing in the BBDB uses that layout that I can see. (Equally, I couldn't get anything to use pop-up-multi-line; pop-ups use ordinary multi-line...) If you misspell `indentation' as `indention' and wire that spelling error into the code, the docstring shouldn't then proceed to typo the typo in turn, as `indetion' :) :) There's no documentation for the functionability of the omit-list and order-list, which seems like it could be useful. - and thank you, Ronan, for applying the patch to add `bbdb-suppress-changed-records-recording'; at last bbdb-expire requires no bbdb patches! On the horrible code front: if anyone wants to be made horribly sick, they should have a look at the function `bbdb-expire-auto-edit-bbdb-display-layout-alist' in bbdb-expire-1.5; it edits things into the bbdb-display-layout-alist sort of like `bbdb-elided-display-sanity-setup' does, only it doesn't have pansy ideas like giving up merely because `omit' is already set, oh no... (I just wasted two hours on that code. God knows why, the expirer's suffering from terminal featuritis already :) ) (Oh, hell, I think I managed to announce bbdb-expire without once saying where to get it from. Serves me right for doing announcements at 2am... If any confused people are reading this far down, bbdb-expire's available from the usual place, <http://www.esperi.demon.co.uk/nix/>. Oops.) -- `However, if you want to detect whether (say, 1 in 1000) cars are being abducted by bunnies along their route, you've got a whole new problem.' - Scott James Remnant on network problems _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
