On Sun, Apr 24 2011, Roland Winkler wrote: > On Sun Apr 24 2011 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >> If I could add a rider request to this, it would be great to have a >> single key command to copy the field contents to the kill ring (the way >> 'M' does now for the primary mail address). I often need to copy >> people's details to other places, and every time I do I wish I had >> this > > There is bbdb-copy-records-as-kill. But I can add > bbdb-copy-field-as-kill. > > Oops: bbdb-copy-records-as-kill takes the records as displayed in > the BBDB buffer. For bbdb-copy-field-as-kill it would probably make > more sense to omit all the extra formatting such as the indentation, > but only use some "base formatting" (snail mail addresses would be > difficult to use otherwise).
Exactly! I tried bbdb-copy-records-as-kill but it was more work to remove the extra stuff than it was simply to move point to the field and copy what I wanted manually. Seems like preserving line breaks in multi-line fields (and removing any left-hand whitespace) would be all the formatting you'd need… E ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fulfilling the Lean Software Promise Lean software platforms are now widely adopted and the benefits have been demonstrated beyond question. Learn why your peers are replacing JEE containers with lightweight application servers - and what you can gain from the move. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfemails _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
