bbdb usage

1994-03-01 Thread John S Cooper
The formalities :- [ lemacs-version 19.10 ; vm-version 5.55.L (beta) ; bbdb-version 1.50 ] I'm a new BBDB user and am curious to know typical customizations / the way in which folks actually use the package. I've read the BBDB info nodes, but I use pretty much the default setup (see vars at en

Re: combining BBDB databases?

1994-03-01 Thread Joe Wells
> "Colin" == Colin Owen Rafferty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From: Rui - Tao Dong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Rui-Tao Dong ~{6-HpLN~} Department of Mathematics Colin> Okay, so this is not related to combining databases, but I would Colin> like to know how to c

Re: combining BBDB databases?

1994-03-01 Thread Frank Siebenlist
> "Jamie" == Jamie Zawinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jamie> ... Jamie> No, it's a problem with the address. Jamie> My testcases show that 99% of the time, Jamie> " - " is of the form "Some Name - Some Pinhead Slogan".

Re: combining BBDB databases?

1994-03-01 Thread Jamie Zawinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I keep two copies of BBDB, one at home and one at work. I have used > "emerge" to merge them a few times. It worked reasonably well. You are dancing blindfolded on a precipice. > There was some discussing about using EDB as a backend for BBDB. If you thi

Re: combining BBDB databases?

1994-03-01 Thread Jamie Zawinski
Colin Owen Rafferty wrote: > > Is it just another problem that 'mail-extract-address-components has? No, it's a problem with the address. My testcases show that 99% of the time, " - " is of the form "Some Name - Some Pinhead Slogan". Take out the spaces around the - and mail-extr will parse it

Re: combining BBDB databases?

1994-03-01 Thread Colin Owen Rafferty
> From: Rui - Tao Dong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Rui-Tao Dong ~{6-HpLN~} Department of Mathematics Okay, so this is not related to combining databases, but I would like to know how to change bbdb so that it does not think that Rui-Tao Dong's name is just "Rui"? Is it just another

Re: combining BBDB databases?

1994-03-01 Thread Rui - Tao Dong
> On Mon, 28 Feb 94 16:03:32 CST, "Eric D. Hendrickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >said: eric> Signalling: (error "duplicate bbdb entries" ["Lu" "Cheng" nil nil nil nil ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]") nil ["Lu Cheng" nil # nil]] ["Lu" "Cheng" nil nil nil nil ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]") nil ["L

Re: BBDB and WWW

1994-03-01 Thread Josef Schneeberger
> "Boris" == boris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Boris> Here's another item you might want to know about someone... their WWW Boris> home page. Put that information in a field called "www", and this Boris> function will provide the connection to the wonderful emacs w3-mode Boris> (ie, hit W t