On Tue, Oct 11 2011, Roland Winkler wrote: > Hello, > > I incorporated a bunch of smaller changes and bug fixes. > > (Thanks to everyone who contributed to this in one or the other way!) > > - Editing and display of names (full names, first-last, last-first) > can be customized, see bbdb-name-format and bbdb-read-name-format. > > If bbdb-read-name-format is fullname, it is possible to edit the > first and last name individually via a prefix arg for > bbdb-read-record and bbdb-record-edit-name. -- We had discussed > here yet fancier solutions based on a separating character such as > "}" when names are edited in full. But after I had implemented the > current changes for editing names, I thought it's better to give > those a try and go from there. Could it be that the current > solution is really sufficient?
This looks great, and for my own use-case at least, gets me close enough to what I was after -- Chinese names can be displayed last-first, and it doesn't really matter that they display with a (technically spurious) comma. In my quest to complicate things, would it be possible to: Set `bbdb-read-name-format' to `fullname'. Then allow the user to put a comma in the name. `bbdb-read-name' (and/or `bbdb-record-edit-name') looks for the comma, and if it finds it, automatically sets the `name-format' field for that record to `last-first'. Then split on the comma and use the two halves as last-first. The same thing happens in reverse for editing: the full name is displayed, but with last name first, and the comma inserted as a separator. If the user then edits the name to remove the comma, the `name-format' field is reverted to `first-last', and the new name is saved in that order: first-last. Does that make sense? My main goal is to be able to set the `name-format' field heuristically. It seems like doing it this way would be much more intuitive and unobtrusive than the "}" hack, but provide much of the same flexibility. If this seems acceptable in principle, I can take a stab at a patch. Thanks, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
