Re: BBDB: 1/10101

1995-01-07 Thread Colin Owen Rafferty
> I must share the feeling! I tried to gush about hitting 1, but it > bounced off the defunct lucid.com, and it wasn't a palindrome anyway! Not trying to ruin your day, but do you have: (setq bbdb/news-auto-create-p t) in your .emacs file? If not, then I am really impressed. -Colin

Re: bbdb-lucid.el patch

1995-01-03 Thread Colin Owen Rafferty
> Regarding bbdb-lucid.el patch; Stig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > X-Face: V3#TB_`^vld7L-O4+Qk1%QYVRe6B2)Ia$tWrjprU|P'pM:Y{P5Io@~qxuL:&.;*?KU5.w_J > ^t3S-[aLM9E*t3PKQ8FJs[+U5BYh4G'6xody^[oR"fukpjVI}3m!<;f)Ptipi4lD,R70]K3$pK"#c` > [3S!^H~;A&1oo&;)-"R2]5%unJ8QeoXlo7n+h(rLQS?]SCWnHvm3/v7*RXE`

Re: Repeating addresses

1994-12-19 Thread Colin Owen Rafferty
> Regarding Repeating addresses; [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Lim) asks: > Is there a way to use variables for representing addresses (and other > things) that get repeated different db entries? For example, instead > of having to retype the same company/institution name and address over > and

Re: merging two .bbdb files

1994-10-24 Thread Colin Owen Rafferty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Has anyone written any elisp to merge two .bbdb files as painlessly as > possible? You're walking on the edge of a razor. (jwz hasn't been contributing in a long time.)

bbdb-display not very good

1994-03-16 Thread Colin Owen Rafferty
Howdy- I have been very frustrated by the fact that every time I run bbdb-display, if I don't hit to complete the person's name, I get thrown into the debugger. Well, I tracked it down, and see that there is a pair of problems. 1. 'bbdb-completing-read-record calls 'completing-read with a nil

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: Tracking all posters to gnu.*

1994-02-18 Thread Colin Owen Rafferty
> (defun news () > (interactive) > (setq gnus-nntp-server "ingres") > (setq gnus-select-group-hook > '(lambda () >(setq bbdb/news-auto-create-p > (string< "gnu" gnus-newsgroup-name) > ;; This isn't quite right as I want to match all groups starting > ;; "gn

Re: Date parsed as name problem

1994-02-17 Thread Colin Owen Rafferty
> I have a correspondent whose 'From' is this: > From: 11-Feb-1994 0724 -0700 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Here's the actual BBDB entry for this person: > Ken Appleman > net: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > BBDB keeps wanting to make this guy's name "Feb", apparently thinking the > date entry is a nam

Re: Processing User Defined Notes Fields

1994-02-08 Thread Colin Owen Rafferty
Lance A. Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to do some processing on a user defined notes field, but > am having problems deriving code to do this. Specifically I want to > select records with a particular user-defined note field and apply a > lisp function to each record. (defun b

non-interactive handling and/or better mail aliases

1994-02-04 Thread Colin Owen Rafferty
Hello- I am using gnuserv, and I would like to be able to grab a phone number (or something) from the shell with gnuclient. Basically, I need a function that either takes a bbdb record list or a *BBDB* buffer and gives back a list of values within it. Has anyone done this, so that I don't have

Re: Emacs 19 and BBDB patches

1994-01-10 Thread Colin Owen Rafferty
> I have a bbdb-insinuate-vm from a Colin Rafferty, are there any > other patches of interest for bbdb? Please give credit where credit is due. I did not write any bbdb stuff (except one thing that I'm about to release). I just sent you the copy of bbdb-vm.el. I'm certain that jwz wrote it

Re: a few 'how-to' questions

1993-11-29 Thread Colin Owen Rafferty
> How do I do a bbdb search for records where the value of > certain fields is nil, e.g., for records where there is no > company named? I tried "" and "^$" and nil, and finally > gave up. "^$" is correct, but you must do the lookup on a specific field (e.g. you should call 'bbdb-company, not 'b