On 2012-10-14 00:46 +0800, Roland Winkler wrote: > See bbdb-allow-duplicates. > > I guess it is fair to say that this variable was introduced long ago > not as a bug, but as a feature. Depending on circumstances, it could > be more likely that duplicate entries inadvertently refer to the > same person. > > Also, the docstring of this variable expresses the fact...
Sure. So bbdb-no-duplicates was renamed to bbdb-allow-duplicates while keeping the same value which amounts to disallow duplicates by default and that is exactly what caused me all the trouble. [snipped 12 lines] > ...that so far in BBDB's history nobody considered the case of > records with duplicate names important enough to extend the code of > bbdb-complete-mail to handle such records properly. If this is > urgent for you, you might want to look into this function yourself. > > Actually, I am not sure this requires a UID field. Instead, it may > be sufficient that bbdb-complete-mail does not immediately exit one > of its loops if it found one record matching a name. Instead it > needs to continue looking for matching records. > > Note that BBDB's hash table associates elements in, say, the > organization field with multiple records. In the same way it *can* > associate a name with multiple records. Merely, details are not yet > spelled out in the code. See the warning in bbdb-allow-duplicates. > > Roland In my view, bbdb-no-duplicates defaults to nil says a lot about people caring duplicates. Leo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
