(Yes, this bug/request is over a year old!)
On February 13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> I am having a problem with one aspect of bbdb-dial. I have everyting
> working except for bbdb-dial-long-distance-prefix. bbdb-dial distinguishes
> between local and long distance nubers, dialing the area code in the latter
> case, but it fails to dial the 1 before long distance numbers. I have tried
> setting bbdb-dial-long-distance-prefix to the number 1 as well as the string
> "1", but neither works (the commentary is unclear to me here, stating that
> this variable should be set to a "string of digits").
>
> For testing purposes I tried setting the bbdb-dial-local-prefix, but that
> number is not dialed for local numbers either.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
The bbdb-dial logic, which I've been kicking around for bits and
pieces of the last month, turns out to be highly Americanized (there's
a surprise!) and rather convoluted. The various variables interact as
follows:
* bbdb-dial-local-prefix-alist is the first to be applied. This list
is treated as a collection of (SEXPR REPLACEMENT) pairs; SEXPR
is evaluated to produce a regular expression which is then applied
to the number. If it matches, whatever it matches is replaced by
REPLACEMENT. Using a prefix arg to bbdb-dial disables this.
* if there's an xNNN suffix on the number, it's removed (since we
don't dial extensions)
* if the first step produces a transformed number (this is pretty dumb
- it doesn't check if the number is actually shorter/different, just
that one or more of the transforms applied) then no further changes
are made before dialing.
OTHERWISE
- if the number (the original number) starts with a '0', it's deemed
to be a local number, and bbdb-dial-local-prefix is prepended.
- if the number starts with a '+', it's deemed to be long distance,
and bbdb-dial-long-distance-prefix is applied.
The key to making this do what you mean, at present, is in
bbdb-dial-local-prefix, since that allows you to apply arbitrary
transformations to numbers. The current default is to identify numbers
within bbdb-default-area-code and remove the area code from them. I'm
redoing the documentation section on dialing to explain how this stuff
works until such time as I can think of a way of safely replacing it
with something a little more intuitive (and a little less
parochial...)
Cheers,
Waider.
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Brian." - Ramiro Estrugo
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