On Mon, Oct 17 2011, Roland Winkler wrote: > On Mon Oct 17 2011 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >> 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. > > ...Yes and no. The comma is customizable. It is the rule > name-last-first in bbdb-separator-alist. I found that having such > rules makes things much cleaner. The approach you suggest appears a > bit orthogonal to this scheme. So I am somewhat hesitant to > implement it. > > ...Give me some time to think about this. Maybe there is a yet > better solution. > >> 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. > > This appears a bit like a hack to me. -- In a consistent scheme, > removing the comma would not be enough. If the full name is > displayed as "Smith, Joe", the user would hve to replace this by > "Joe Smith". > > A little command for setting the name-format field appears more > appropriate to me.
Fair enough! I definitely agree it's worth putting some thought into. Let me know if other possibilities arise. 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/
