On Sunday, July 6, 2008 at 11:52:28, Patrick Campbell-Preston wrote:
>
> > On Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 13:44:06, William Xu wrote:
> > > Ted Zlatanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > > If this already exists in some form, let me know.
> > >
> > > (setq bbdb-quiet-about-name-mismatches t)
> > >
> > > But it has problems described in:
> > >
> > > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bbdb.user/2196
> > >
> > > So I ended up modifying the lisp files directly.
> >
> > Pleas share the changes, eventually they could be merged
> > into the mainline ...
>
> Hold on, please; I believe all this is predicated on a
> misconception!
>
> If you haven't tried (setq bbdb-quiet-about-name-mismatches 0) then
> perhaps you can't say whether it solves the problem.
>
> Setting this variable to t in fact could be interpreted as "do not
> ask me whether to update the bbdb record, but display a slightly
> confusing message for a default interval (say 2 seconds)."
>
> The documentation for bbdb-quiet-about-name-mismatches says:
>
> *If this is true, then BBDB will not prompt you when it notices a
> name change, that is, when the "real name" in a message doesn't
> correspond to a record already in the database with the same network
> address. As in, "John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" versus "John Q. Smith
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>". Normally you will be asked if you want to change
> it. If set to a number it is the number of seconds to sit for while
> displaying the mismatch message.
>
> And the code (buried in bbdb-annotate-message-sender) does exactly
> what this says.
Probably it should not display the message in case of t, as
it contradicts the "quiet" in the name of the variable ...
well the code says
;; ignore name mismatches?
;; NB 'quiet' means 'don't ask', not 'don't mention'
but displaying a message is not really quiet ... and if t
is returned by a function then it is in fact suppressed.
The defcustom also has an example how to suppress it only
for records with the readonly field.
Cheers Robert
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