On 2007-12-03 20:27 +0000, Robert Widhopf-Fenk wrote:
Hi Robert, many thanks for the patch below. It works great!
> On Monday, December 3, 2007 at 02:14:01, Leo wrote:
>> On 2007-11-26 22:57 +0000, Robert Widhopf-Fenk wrote:
>>
>> Hi Robert, sorry for the delay.
>
>>
>> > On Saturday, November 24, 2007 at 00:24:28, Leo wrote:
>> >> Hi there,
>> >>
>> >> In England, one usually needs to prefix the name with a title
>> >> such as Prof. Stupid Head. If I miss the title "Prof.", Stupid
>> >> Head usually thinks that I am rude.
>> >
>> > What is he using in the From header?
>> >
>> > Is it also like that if you miss it in the email address,
>> > i.e. the To/CC headers?
>>
>> I don't quite understand this question. He uses "Prof. ..."
>
> I just try to understand how it would impact on snarfing,
> i.e. how to detect the title and avoid name miss matches.
The most common words that preceding a name is "Mr, Mrs, Dr or Prof" etc
etc.
> This is not solved by the patch below.
>
>> >> So I have tried to add the title to the name field. However, now
>> >> in mail mode there is no completion for "Stupid <TAB>" and adding
>> >> the title to name field is logically incorrect.
>> >
>> > Complete on "Prof Stupid" and it should work.
>>
>> But prof is not part of the name besides once you collect many
>> entries with prof the completion would have too many entries
>> beginning with prof.
>>
>> >
>> > Anyway, adding support for a title sounds reasonable, but it
>> > will/might interfere during name comparison and I wonder how to
>> > extract / detect them correctly.
>>
>> Many be we can add a field for honorific Prefixes and have
>> bbdb-complete-name insert that value in front of the Name when
>> completing in message mode etc.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> I try to hack bbdb-complete-name to do that, but that function is
>> too complicated for me.
>
> Never touch this beast, also it is the wrong place,
> bbdb-dwim-net-address is the right one, see below ...
>
>> >> In vCard, the N type has Family Name, Given Name, Additional
>> >> Names, Honorific Prefixes, and Honorific Suffixes. I can not
>> >> think of a name that can not be expressed in that format.
>> >
>> > You can add what ever fields you like (C-o NEWFIELD RET),
>> > e.g. also those, but ...
>>
>> I knew about this for a while ;)
>>
>> >> I wonder if we can extend bbdb to support that.
>> >
>> > ... I wonder what functionality you would want to bind to
>> > them.
>> >
>> >> BTW, more and more I find bbdb can not record some info
>> >> correctly. For example some contacts have work and personal 'www'
>> >> and there is no easy way to indicate this in bbdb.
>> >
>> > Add a new field www-home.
>>
>> www-home can do but looks ugly.
>
> So what looks "cute"?
>
> Do you want the www field to be an associative list?
>
> How would it look like?
Good question. Actually I don't have a better suggestion at the
moment. I just feel 'www-home' isn't great!
>
> Robert.
>
> Please test this patch for adding titles to expanded nets
> ...
[...]
The patch works perfectly. Do you think the field name should be
`title'? I was thinking it might be confusing with "job title"?
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