make.bat 2nd shot.

2001-02-21 Thread Yair Friedman (Jerusalem)
Grabbing yesterdays snapshot (BBDB version 2.3 ($Date: 2001/02/19 23:10:27 $)), I decided to take another chance at make.bat. My major problem is that the info file isn't generated. This can be reproduced, so I'll try to look further into it. Any suggestions are welcome. I also removed the

Re: important changes

2001-02-21 Thread Ronan Waide
On February 20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I just tried it and it worked for me, x-faces in my bbdb buffer. but I'm using an older version of bbdb, 2.00.06. XEmacs 21.2-b44. Right. It's looking for a package I don't have locally, I guess, which it shouldn't need any more judging by the VM

Re: grave completion bug in bbdb 2.2

2001-02-21 Thread Ronan Waide
On February 20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: more and more email goes to the non-primary address. And the bbdb maintainers cannot even fix it, because it's a horrble ten-page mess of vaguely documented gratuitously complex side-effectful elisp crud that everyone is too scared to take a serious

Re: grave completion bug in bbdb 2.2

2001-02-21 Thread Barak Pearlmutter
Oh come now, that's not a very fair comparison. The functionality of the completion function is really quite simple. It was just augmented repeatedly without breaking out routines, until is is now an unmanageable mess. It needs to be hacked with the byte saber. One function that takes a

Re: grave completion bug in bbdb 2.2

2001-02-21 Thread Ronan Waide
On February 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Oh come now, that's not a very fair comparison. The functionality of the completion function is really quite simple. It was just augmented repeatedly without breaking out routines, until is is now an unmanageable mess. It needs to be hacked with the

Loading policy (was: important changes)

2001-02-21 Thread Toby Speight
0 In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], 0 Ronan Waide URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Ronan") wrote: Ronan I'm not dumb. I do understand the merit of "no side effects, Ronan please". I also understand the merit of "make things easy for Ronan the user". For this latter reason, I think it is wrong to

hashing by company name

2001-02-21 Thread Ronan Waide
[developer question, stop here if you're not familiar with bbdb internals!] Anyone know offhand what I break by taking the company name out of BBDB's hashtable? I can find one instance of setting it, and get-hash calls that read it are only used to tell you you've got a duplicate - which is

Re: Loading policy (was: important changes)

2001-02-21 Thread Ronan Waide
On February 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Lemme get back to you on that. I managed to lock up Emacs while I was trying some other random methods of loading it in, but an autoload should work, I guess. Waider. Seems to work. Cheers. Waider. And dammit, why didn't I think of that? --

Re: important changes

2001-02-21 Thread Ronan Waide
On February 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: As long as there are no defcustoms in bbdb-gui, that's fine. But if it ever becomes more than a `load-to-activate' hook, it'll probably acquire configurability, and that means defcustoms... As it stands, there are defcustoms all over the BBDB source.

Re: `bbdb-auto-notes-alist' vs hidden headers in Gnus.

2001-02-21 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Ronan Waide wrote: On February 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I want to use the auto-notes alist to extract X-face headers and other information that I don't actually want to see in the article buffer. Hmm. Is there a hook floating around there that you can use to trigger

Re: hashing by company name

2001-02-21 Thread Ronan Waide
On February 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm guessing you don't have a BBDB record for the jobalert system? Thus BBDB says well I have this name, and I have four records that seem to match it some how, but none of the nets match, what to do? That's correct, nor do I want one. I do my

Re: hashing by company name

2001-02-21 Thread Thomas E Deweese
"RW" == Ronan Waide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RW On February 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: So you actually have someone with the same _complete_ name as a Company? Weird! :) RW Well, it's not that. I have two or three people who work for RW Stepstone in my BBDB. When I get emails from

Re: `bbdb-auto-notes-alist' vs hidden headers in Gnus.

2001-02-21 Thread ShengHuo ZHU
Daniel Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Ronan Waide wrote: On February 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I want to use the auto-notes alist to extract X-face headers and other information that I don't actually want to see in the article buffer. Hmm. Is there a hook

Re: hashing by company name

2001-02-21 Thread Ronan Waide
PS Thomas, I can't mail your kodak address directly because kodak's militant mail filter doesn't like hostnames with "dialup" in them. Waider. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Yes, it /is/ very personal of me. I really need to reinstate the witty comments, dammit.

Re: xemacs and autoloads

2001-02-21 Thread Ronan Waide
On February 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: (sorry I can't find the message for credit purposes) responded with the following for .emacs, which works: (unload-feature 'bbdb-autoloads t) (bbdb-initialize) Good stuff. Thankfully, we've gotten rid of the problem for the next BBDB release, but

Re: xemacs and autoloads

2001-02-21 Thread David S. Goldberg
Okay, this is officially irritating me. 1. Why is xemacs telling me that bbdb-autoloads is already loaded, when I have nothing to load it in my .emacs? 2. Why is it a fatal error to load bbdb-autoloads twice? If this is a "my version vs. your version issue, wouldn't it be more sensible

hashing by company name

2001-02-21 Thread Thomas E Deweese
"RW" == Ronan Waide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RW [developer question, stop here if you're not familiar with bbdb RW internals!] Anyone know offhand what I break by taking the RW company name out of BBDB's hashtable? Well, I ran into this when doing the 'duplicate-record' stuff. The hash

Re: hashing by company name

2001-02-21 Thread Ronan Waide
On February 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: So you actually have someone with the same _complete_ name as a Company? Weird! :) Well, it's not that. I have two or three people who work for Stepstone in my BBDB. When I get emails from stepstone's jobalert system, the "real name" on the mail

Re: bbdb-complete-name on AKA's and company name's

2001-02-21 Thread Ronan Waide
On February 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: "RW" == Ronan Waide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RW On February 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Is there a way to make bbdb-complete-name complete on AKA's and Company name's? RW Hmm, you can also do a bbdb-search and then just press 'm' on the RW

Re: bbdb-complete-name on AKA's and company name's

2001-02-21 Thread Thomas E Deweese
"RW" == Ronan Waide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RW On February 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Is there a way to make bbdb-complete-name complete on AKA's and Company name's? RW Hmm, you can also do a bbdb-search and then just press 'm' on the RW appropriate record. Not quite the same thing, I

bbdb-complete-name on AKA's and company name's

2001-02-21 Thread Albert L. Ting
Is there a way to make bbdb-complete-name complete on AKA's and Company name's? Thanks, Albert ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/

Re: cvs ci 'bbdb/lisp bbdb.el,1.145,1.146'

2001-02-21 Thread Ronan Waide
On February 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Update of /cvsroot/bbdb/bbdb/lisp In directory usw-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv17987 Modified Files: bbdb.el Log Message: (bbdb-gui): new user option Sam, with all due respect, I could do without you undercutting my code without discussing it with

another day, another BBDB version, another backtrace

2001-02-21 Thread Patrick Campbell-Preston
I must just be unlucky. Ronan's mail claiming that my grave completion bug was fixed tempted me to update once again from the nightly tarball. Yes - the completion works, but now the bbdb/rmail interface is broken. It looks rather as if bbdb/rmail-update-record expects

Re: SyncBBDB issues

2001-02-21 Thread Thomas DeWeese
On Thursday, February 15, 2001, at 08:57 AM, Ronan Waide wrote: On February 14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hmm, I'll look into this. Unfortunately, I suspect that something will only accept "" and not 'nil'. Which means I'll need to seriously uglify (TM) the code to what wants what :(

Re: another day, another BBDB version, another backtrace

2001-02-21 Thread Ronan Waide
On February 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hmmm, that's what testing is for. Certainly. However, it helps if you specify the error rather than just saying that there is one. BBDB is not an easy thing to test. Both the errors should be fixed in current CVS (note: the tarball doesn't get

Re: another day, another BBDB version, another backtrace

2001-02-21 Thread Patrick Campbell-Preston
Okay, I'm looking into this. There's more broken than that, and I can't understand how I missed it. For now, you can set bbdb-message-caching-enabled to nil and work away. I tried that but still got a different error somewhere else. Please post the error. I can't fix these

Re: another day, another BBDB version, another backtrace

2001-02-21 Thread Ronan Waide
On February 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It looks rather as if bbdb/rmail-update-record expects bbdb-message-cache-lookup to accept two arguments; it used to, but today it doesn't. Okay, I'm looking into this. There's more broken than that, and I can't understand how I missed it. For now,

Re: cvs ci 'bbdb/lisp bbdb.el,1.145,1.146'

2001-02-21 Thread Sam Steingold
* In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] * On the subject of "Re: cvs ci 'bbdb/lisp bbdb.el,1.145,1.146'" * Sent on Wed, 21 Feb 2001 17:38:37 + * Honorable Ronan Waide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On February 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Update of /cvsroot/bbdb/bbdb/lisp In directory

Re: another day, another BBDB version, another backtrace

2001-02-21 Thread Ronan Waide
On February 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It looks rather as if bbdb/rmail-update-record expects bbdb-message-cache-lookup to accept two arguments; it used to, but today it doesn't. Okay, I'm looking into this. There's more broken than that, and I can't understand how I missed it.

Re: another day, another BBDB version, another backtrace

2001-02-21 Thread Patrick Campbell-Preston
It looks rather as if bbdb/rmail-update-record expects bbdb-message-cache-lookup to accept two arguments; it used to, but today it doesn't. Okay, I'm looking into this. There's more broken than that, and I can't understand how I missed it. For now, you can set

Re: hashing by company name

2001-02-21 Thread Nix
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Ronan Waide stated: That's correct, nor do I want one. I do my best to keep all manner of crud out of my bbdb! I *must* get that BBDB expiry hack updated for BBDB-2.2 so you don't have to do that anymore... -- `I put "Update To-Do List" on my to-do list. I'm never sure

Re: `bbdb-auto-notes-alist' vs hidden headers in Gnus.

2001-02-21 Thread Kai Großjohann
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Ronan Waide wrote: Hmm. Is there a hook floating around there that you can use to trigger this header unhiding, rather than me explicitly coding for fiddling with people's displays? The " *Original Article*" (note leading space) buffer contains the full article,