On Fri Mar 28 2014 Steven Arntson wrote:
> For some reason the version of BBDB I got from M/ELPA came with a
> "manual" that contains only a single sentence, which is "The first
> chapter is the only chapter in this sample."
Yes, the current info pages of BBDB v3 are just a stub.
(Volunteers welcome!)
> I'm running emacs in an environment without a menu bar,
>From the Emacs info pages (unless you customized Emacs not to show
any menu bar)
On a text terminal, you can use the menu bar by typing `M-`' or
<F10> (these run the command `tmm-menubar'). This lets you select a
menu item with the keyboard. A provisional choice appears in the echo
area. You can use the up and down arrow keys to move through the menu
to different items, and then you can type <RET> to select the item.
Each menu item is also designated by a letter or digit (usually the
initial of some word in the item's name). This letter or digit is
separated from the item name by `==>'. You can type the item's letter
or digit to select the item.
> and have used minibuffer completion a few times, but sometimes I
> still can't figure things out. Your advice to use 'i' works
> sometimes. Other times I get a message of "Field [fieldname]
> already exists." In this case, I guess the field "organization"
> has already been created, but is empty, so I can neither create it
> nor move the point to it to 'e' edit it.
If the organization field was empty, it would be deleted
automatically. A typical BBDB record looks like the following
Foo, Bar - Org1, Org2, Org3
phone (home): 123 4567
address (home): street1
City
Emacs
mail: ema...@example.com
AKA: baz1; baz2
notes: This is a note.
Here the organiztions are "Org1, Org2, Org3". Put point on the
field you want to edit, then run bbdb-edit-field bound t `e'.
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