> * Roland Winkler <jvax...@tah.bet> [2012-08-20 22:33:55 -0500]:
>
> On Mon Aug 20 2012 Sam Steingold wrote:
>> this is because
>>
>> (bbdb-record-organization record)
>> ==> ("Princeton University" "Psychology" "MIT" "MIT Brain" "MIT Brain &
>> Cognitive Science" "MIT BRAIN&COGSCI" "Harvard William James Hall" "HARVARD
>> PSYCHOLOGY" "HARVARD" "PSYCHOLOGY" \.\.\.)
>>
>> with the ... literal appearing in the .bbdb file.
>>
>> Now I will have to hunt down what was there before the data corruption.
>>
>> Please bind print-length et al to nil while saving bbdb!
>
> print-length is not intended as a user variable and it defaults to
> nil. If you change such a default, you should certainly be prepared
> for unexpected surprises.
I did not touch the variable.
I don't know which package did and why.
Suppose gnus binds in somewhere and inside that bbdb saves the file.
Anyway, CL has WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX and emacs needs something like
that too; meanwhile bbdb has to follow the example of, e.g., package.el,
and do
(let ((print-level nil)
(print-length nil))
(write-region
(concat
(prin1-to-string
(list 'define-package
file-name
.....)))))
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