Jochen KÃpper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Alex Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> When you use C-u M-x bbdb RET dan RET you will get the matching
>> entries in "elided" form -- one line per entry. It works by
>> temporarily switching bbdb-display-layout, but I must confess I
>> didn't quite understand how it picked the layout to use instead.
>
> AFAICT it simply uses the "one-line" format.
Ok, I looked at it again.
Bbdb sets bbdb-display-layout to (bbdb-grovel-elide-arg elidep). When
using C-u, elidep is set to (4). In bbdb-grovel-elide-arg I see:
(list 'if arg
(list 'not (list 'eq arg 0))
'bbdb-display-layout))
So this returns (not (eq '(4) 0)) which is t. Bbdb then calls
bbdb-display-records with bbdb-display-layout bound to t. Eventually
this calls bbdb-format-record with the record and t as arguments.
And the docstring of bbdb-format-record says:
layout can be a symbol describing a layout in
`bbdb-display-layout-alist'. For compatibility reasons, layout
can also be nil or t, where t stands for the one-line, and nil for
the multi-line layout.
Ah! That is what I was missing.
Alex.
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