Re: bbdb-print and utf8 bbdb file

2014-08-30 Thread Carson Chittom
die...@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm) writes: my bbdb file is encoded in utf8 and when I try to print entries and converting the resulting bbdb.tex file, I'm getting weird characters in either the .dvi and .pdf file. How would you deal with the situation? How are you creating the

Re: bbdb-print and utf8 bbdb file

2014-08-30 Thread Carson Chittom
Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net writes: I've never even gotten bbdb-print to work, it's always complained about undefined control sequences or something. The tex code is very old, and I had this error trying to run the file through pdflatex, but it worked fine with pdftex.

Re: help with starting bbdb3

2013-09-15 Thread Carson Chittom
Michael ber...@opensuse.us writes: Is there a bbdb list for newbies on how to get started using bbdb or an IRC channel? This would be the mailing list; there's not a separate one for newbies. You could ask on #emacs on irc.freenode.net as well. I need a text email client for both unix type

Re: State of the art of Bi-directional sync for BBDB and other contact apps

2012-03-10 Thread Carson Chittom
Sriram ET. karra@gmail.com writes: Hi, I am trying to determine there is a recommended utility that does bi-directional sync between BBDB and any of the other popular contact apps like Outlook, Gmail, Apple Address Book, etc.? I see a number of export and import, which is typically

Re: [BBDB] ChangeLog 2011-12-11

2011-12-27 Thread Carson Chittom
I'll spare you all the boring details, but essentially I'm having to recreate my ~/.emacs from scratch. I checked out the most recent code from the Savannah repository today and followed the instructions in INSTALL and README as best I understood them. This gave me: (require 'bbdb-loaddefs

Re: Manual for BBDB 3

2011-11-20 Thread Carson Chittom
Philipp Möller bootsare...@googlemail.com writes: I'm new to BBDB and confused by which manual to use for which version. I currently use BBDB version 3.02 ($Date: 2011/10/10 18:04:34 $) and it seems there is no info manual included and the only manual I could find is at:

Re: stop bbdb from asking questions in gnus

2011-11-10 Thread Carson Chittom
Thorsten quintf...@googlemail.com writes: I successfully installed bbdb 3 for the use with gnus. But the default behaviour might almost be considered a bug - the whole workflow in gnus is destroyed by bbdb constantly asking if I want to add some post or email author to the database. I almost

Re: stop bbdb from asking questions in gnus

2011-11-10 Thread Carson Chittom
Thorsten quintf...@googlemail.com writes: Thanks for yours and for Johnny's replies - but why should I want you in my bbdb? I only want to read your posts here on the mailing list, there is not reason whatsoever to save personnal contact data. There's no reason to save it, but there's no

Re: Locally install git version of bbdb 3

2011-11-09 Thread Carson Chittom
Thorsten quintf...@googlemail.com writes: Therefore I don't want to run the makefile that will install bbdb somewhere else. Isn't it just sufficient to just byte-compile all the .el files in the lisp folders and put a few lines (which ones?) in my .emacs, or are there more and other things

Re: [PATCH] * README: Fix typo. Add hint for Emacs 23 users.

2011-11-01 Thread Carson Chittom
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes: On Wed Oct 26 2011 Carson Chittom wrote: bbdb.el:3735:1:Warning: the function `special-mode' is not known to be defined. Thanks. This is probably the most significant problem for emacs 23. bbdb-com.el:2362:1:Warning: the following functions

[Carson Chittom] Re: [PATCH] * README: Fix typo. Add hint for Emacs 23 users.

2011-10-26 Thread Carson Chittom
Accidentally replied just to Roland. Sorry about that. ---BeginMessage--- Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes: If you can post here a list of all warnings etc form the compiler, it could give us some idea which pieces of code are possibly not backward compatible. Here's the output from

Re: [PATCH] * README: Fix typo. Add hint for Emacs 23 users.

2011-10-24 Thread Carson Chittom
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes: -- How did you run into this? Did you try to compile BBDB with an older version of GNU Emacs. I guess this might give you a longer list of compilation errors. Yes, that's it exactly---I'm trying to use it with Emacs 22. There were some warnings during

Re: [PATCH] * README: Fix typo. Add hint for Emacs 23 users.

2011-10-24 Thread Carson Chittom
Carson Chittom car...@wistly.net writes: I understand your reticence, but my reasoning is thus: BBDB3 works, Er, I understand your *reluctance*. You weren't reticent at all. I haven't my coffee yet this morning. -- Carson M. Chittom Director, Mississippi Employee Appeals Board

[PATCH] * README: Fix typo. Add hint for Emacs 23 users.

2011-10-22 Thread Carson Chittom
I'm not a programmer, so I can't help much, but here's a very small contribution to the BBDB documentation. I don't know anything about git, much less its integration into Emacs and Gnus, so I just ran git format-patch -1, to generate what I've copy-and-pasted below. If there's a better way,

Re: [PATCH] Better support for organisation-only records

2011-09-26 Thread Carson Chittom
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes: PS: Wait! You say you have dreams that cannot be coded in elisp?? I hear some folks get divide-by-zero errors. -- http://www.wistly.net -- All the data continuously generated in

Re: setting up BBDB 3 with Gnus on WinXP

2011-09-14 Thread Carson Chittom
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes: So you also might want to check that your hand-made bbdb-autoloads.el contains an entry for bbdb-insinuate-gnus. This was the error---or rather, bbdb-autoloads.el was messed up in a more general way (my own fault; I just didn't read the Makefile

setting up BBDB 3 with Gnus on WinXP

2011-09-13 Thread Carson Chittom
I hope this is the right list; there didn't seem to be a different one listed on Savannah. I should say that I'm fairly new to Emacs and Gnus, and completely new to BBDB, so I don't have any experience with old BBDB versions to guide me. I'm trying to set up BBDB 3 to work with Gnus. I'm using

Re: setting up BBDB 3 with Gnus on WinXP

2011-09-13 Thread Carson Chittom
Antoine Levitt antoine.lev...@gmail.com writes: 13/09/11 15:27, Carson Chittom -=-=-=-=- (add-to-list 'load-path C:/Documents and Settings/carson/Utilities/bbdb/lisp) (require 'bbdb) (bbdb-initialize 'gnus 'message) (add-hook 'gnus-startup-hook 'bbdb-insinuate-gnus) -=-=-=-=- That setup