Saša Janiška writes:
> kensubu...@gmail.com writes:
>
> Hello,
>
>> I second that! I would love a manual for V3. If I can help let me know.
>
> sometime ago I switched from Vim, first to Spacemacs and now I’m on
> ’plain’ Emacs…using Gnus, org-mode etc.
>
> I sync my phone
Christian Egli <christian.e...@sbs.ch> writes:
> Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Glyn Millington <glyn.milling...@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> I think Eric's suggestion/hint/encouragement about a bbdb(3) manual is
>>&g
Christian Egli <christian.e...@sbs.ch> writes:
> Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Glyn Millington <glyn.milling...@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> I think Eric's suggestion/hint/encouragement about a bbdb(3) manual is
>>&g
Alan Schmitt writes:
> Hello,
>
> Is there a way to automatically save the bbdb file after each change?
> I searched for `bbdb*save' but could not find anything relevant.
You'll probably want one of the hooks: look for bbdb-*-hook. I think
Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> "Roland Winkler" <wink...@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> On Thu Dec 24 2015 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>>> A while ago there was a very brief exchange about the possibility of a
>>> version of BB
"Roland Winkler" <wink...@gnu.org> writes:
> On Thu Dec 24 2015 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>> A while ago there was a very brief exchange about the possibility of a
>> version of BBDB refactored on top of the EIEIO object orientation
>> library. I've been thinking
And while we're all here...
A while ago there was a very brief exchange about the possibility of a
version of BBDB refactored on top of the EIEIO object orientation
library. I've been thinking about that for a while, and recently wrote
a sort of prototype. I'd like to share it with everyone,
"Roland Winkler" writes:
> On Mon Dec 21 2015 Michael Strey wrote:
>> ((vm vm-mode vm-virtual-mode vm-summary-mode vm-presentation-mode)
>> (gnus gnus-summary-mode gnus-article-mode gnus-tree-mode)
>> (rmail rmail-mode rmail-summary-mode)
>> (mh mhe-mode mhe-summary-mode
Michael Strey writes:
> Hi Alan,
>
> On Mo, 2015-12-21 at 09:14, Alan Schmitt wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> I tried adding the 'mu4e symbol to both lines and it's not changing
>> anything. I don't necessarily want BBDB to work with mu4e: I want to be
>> able to send messages with mu4e
Roland Winkler <wink...@gnu.org> writes:
> On Sat, Nov 21 2015, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>> I might add to this a clearer API for the "noticing" functionality of
>> BBDB -- ie, make it easier to write the hooks for "doing things to
>> BBDB records when you
Vincent Belaïche writes:
> Hello Mosè,
>
> BBDB is some sort of phone book (well, it means insidious Big-Bother
> Data Base). My intention is to have functions to read the to-address with
> auto-completion by getting the data from BBDB by means of name or
> organisation.
"Roland Winkler" <wink...@gnu.org> writes:
> On Wed Sep 9 2015 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>> "Roland Winkler" <wink...@gnu.org> writes:
>> > You mean having two newline characters for the new `record' rule in
>> > bbdb-separator-alist? Yes,
"Roland Winkler" <wink...@gnu.org> writes:
> On Sun Sep 6 2015 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>> Okay, here's a new version of the patch that does that.
>
> Please check my slightly different version of bbdb-copy-fields-as-kill.
> I tried to avoid hard-coded formatt
"Roland Winkler" <wink...@gnu.org> writes:
> On Sat Sep 5 2015 Roland Winkler wrote:
>> On Thu Sep 3 2015 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>> > Basically it does what it says: if point is on a record name, the
>> > whole record is copied, like before. If poi
ious types and labels. I would love
to know if this could be cleared up somehow.
Also I just realized I didn't make a ChangeLog note -- if this patch is
acceptable, I can send another version with the note included.
Thanks,
Eric
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Didier Verna did...@xemacs.org writes:
Hi,
I know this is a recurrent topic, but what is your advice for exporting
BBDB to google contacts and Mac Contacts ? I don't even need full
synchronization, I usually only modify BBDB and propagate.
I was using Asynk until recently, but it has
Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net writes:
Phil Hudson phil.hud...@iname.com writes:
On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 at 7:27:02 am BST, Glyn Millington
glyn.milling...@gmail.com wrote:
Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org writes:
On Apr 29 2015, Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org wrote:
Hello
Phil Hudson phil.hud...@iname.com writes:
On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 at 7:27:02 am BST, Glyn Millington
glyn.milling...@gmail.com wrote:
Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org writes:
On Apr 29 2015, Nikolaus Rath nikol...@rath.org wrote:
Hello,
Is there a way to have bbdb3 automatically update the
Glyn Millington glyn.milling...@gmail.com writes:
Phil Hudson phil.hud...@iname.com writes:
On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 at 10:34:32 am BST, Phil Hudson phil.hud...@iname.com
wrote:
The term mail alias itself seems to me to be poorly chosen,
Replying to myself... I've thought of one, namely Gnus'
Phil Hudson phil.hud...@iname.com writes:
On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 at 2:09:26 am BST, Eric Abrahamsen
e...@ericabrahamsen.net wrote:
Phil Hudson phil.hud...@iname.com writes:
On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 at 5:59:07 pm BST, Glyn Millington
glyn.milling...@gmail.com wrote:
(add-hook 'message
Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net writes:
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes:
On Tue Mar 10 2015 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
When `bbdb-record-set-field' is setting a phone or address field, it
adds the new label to the list of existing labels like this:
(add-to-list 'bbdb-phone-label
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes:
On Wed Mar 11 2015 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
For this issue, this patch ought to do it.
The optional arg COMPARE-FN of add-to-list defaults to equal.
So it does! Here's another.
From 49be4b2f1e22075eb41c29a6e9e3e37fe23dc255 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes:
On Tue Mar 10 2015 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
When `bbdb-record-set-field' is setting a phone or address field, it
adds the new label to the list of existing labels like this:
(add-to-list 'bbdb-phone-label-list (bbdb-phone-label phone) nil 'eq
When `bbdb-record-set-field' is setting a phone or address field, it
adds the new label to the list of existing labels like this:
(add-to-list 'bbdb-phone-label-list (bbdb-phone-label phone) nil 'eq)
The labels are strings, and 'eq comparison means they're never equal, so
duplicate strings are
Enrico Pirani enrico.pir...@gmail.com writes:
BBDB suddenly is giving me this error when I try to search a string. The
database is located in Dropobx directory. I am using the BBDB installed
from melpa on a MacOSX (Emacs installed with Mac Ports). I have a Linux
with the same configuration
rene jl...@yahoo.com writes:
Roland Winkler winkler at gnu.org writes:
On Sun Aug 31 2014 Rene wrote:
When using *M-x bbdb-print or even M-x bbdb-print I only get a TeX file
containing the current displayed record (the one my pointer is on in the
*BBDB* buffer).
All these commands use
00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 12:31:07 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Pass dynamic vars to custom format functions
* lisp/bbdb.el (bbdb-display-record-multi-line): Custom field-formatting
functions should receive relevant variables as arguments
die...@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm) writes:
Hello list,
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?
I've never
610a4f8e2e8ae403aeb443a0602534d44e40dbe5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2014 16:40:11 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Fully create snarfed records before merging them
* lisp/bbdb-snarf.el (bbdb-snarf): When snarfing a record that may
already exist
stardiviner numbch...@gmail.com writes:
I try to define custom faces to be applied in variable =bbdb-name-face-alist=
for
variant field names.
Here is my try:
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
;;; define variant faces for variant xfields
;; TODO: improve it
(setq bbdb-name-face-alist '((mail .
die...@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm) writes:
Hello,
is it normal that bbdb-do-all-records is *not* working for all entries
in conjunction with mail-aliases *a, only the entry where the cursor
is sitting?
I'm using emacs 24.3.92.2 and bbdb 3.1.2...
Thanks
Dieter
Steven Arntson ste...@stevenarntson.com writes:
My previous issues with BBDB suddenly not working are resolved, thanks
to this list! And I'm now persevering into the world of linking my BBDB
anniversaries fields with my org-agenda.
I've got a diary.org file set up, which I added to my agenda
Barak A. Pearlmutter ba...@cs.nuim.ie writes:
I'd check for the function. Seems more robust. (E.g., if someone forks
an older version and updates the date string, or if the function is
renamed or removed in the future.) If there's a bug you need to check
for you can always complicate the
For a year or more I've been mildly curious about why mail aliases
didn't work in BBDB -- nothing ever expanded. I finally tried to figure
out why, and realized you have to manually call `bbdb-mail-aliases' in
order to make it work.
It seems like this is something that should happen on
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes:
(1) BBDB now allows arbitrary lisp expressions as values of
xfields. Interactively, you can call bbdb-insert-field or
bbdb-edit-field with a prefix arg for this. If the value of an
xfield is not a string, it is displayed using the same
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes:
On Sun May 4 2014 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
kid name
net: m...@gmail.com, d...@gmail.com
AKA: family name
mail-alias: soccer_team_name
I would ideally like to list all email addresses in each BBDB tuple
Marc D Ronell mron...@alumni.upenn.edu writes:
Hi,
Apologies if this is well documented, but I seem to be blind to the
entries. I have bbdb entries with multiple addresses in the net field
as a comma separated list of email addresses (see net: m...@gmail.com,
d...@gmail.com below).
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes:
On Thu Apr 24 2014 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
I'm trying to create a custom xfield for records that is a list, not a
string. So far as I can tell, it's only possible for xfield values to be
strings. Is that correct? Is it possible to circumvent
Gijs Hillenius g...@hillenius.net writes:
On 24 Apr 2014, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes:
On Thu Apr 24 2014 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
I'm trying to create a custom xfield for records that is a list, not
a string. So far as I can tell, it's only possible
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes:
John Smith; John Smith, Jr; J. Smith, Esquire
I guess we have no shortage in such examples requiring something
like `;' instead of `,'. Besides AKAs / names, we may also have
organization: HAL, Inc.; Smith, Miller Davis; Company 17
Yet worse
Steven Arntson ste...@stevenarntson.com writes:
I'm using gnus to read emails with POP functionality. I'm a little
confused about how the mails I send to people are saved. When I send new
mail from within the gnus buffer with 'm' the message seems to get
archived in a place like
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes:
On Thu Nov 28 2013 Uwe Brauer wrote:
I use
(require 'bbdb-anniv)
(add-hook 'list-diary-entries-hook #'bbdb-include-anniversaries)
In my 2.35 bbdb version and I do see the anniversaries marked in the
calendar. Are you saying this is not possible in
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes:
On Sun Dec 1 2013 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
It might be worth looking at the code in org-bbdb.el:
org-bbdb-make-anniv-hash builds a hash table of all anniversaries in the
BBDB, which would be a useful starting place. Key is (month date), value
is ((year
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes:
On Tue May 28 2013 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
Yup, I think changes would be confined to bbdb.el.
...and bbdb-com.el
The latter contains the user interface for creating and editing BBDB
records, and this is possibly the trickier part. Having fancy
editing
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes:
On Tue May 28 2013 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
Could the organization field, instead of being a string, actually be a
link (or a search-string) to a separate record? Then when you display an
individual record that links to that organization, there could
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes:
On Tue May 28 2013 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
I once half-jokingly suggested rewriting BBDB to use the EIEIO object
system. The joke part was only because it would be a hell of a lot of
work: actually I think an OO-type system is pretty much ideal for what
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes:
On Mon May 27 2013 Gijs Hillenius wrote:
Very happy user of bbdb, but one with a one long-standing question.
Consider two or three records, that share some information,
Me too, I have been annoyed by this. Yet you did not miss anything.
Currently BBDB
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes:
On Tue Apr 16 2013 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
Right now, setting bbdb-mua-pop-up to 'horiz splits the *Summary* buffer
horizontally, not the *Article* buffer! Perhaps because point is in the
*Summary* buffer when *BBDB* is popped? My *Summary* buffer takes
I'm using dev versions of gnus and bbdb. When looking through a gnus
group, bbdb pops up its window at the bottom of the frame, ie I have
*Summary*, *Article*, and *BBDB* in three layers, one on top of the
other. I just realized this makes little sense: most of the articles I
read are
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes:
On Fri Dec 28 2012 Stefan Monnier wrote:
rewrite. But I believe it does not (yet?) offer completion when the
result of the completion is supposed to be a list of values.
IIUC completing-read-multiple should do what you want (and has been
included in
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes:
On Fri Dec 28 2012 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
Yup, I thought of this problem but it seems like it's fudged in
other places (ie you can't complete on subsequent values in an AKA
field) so I figured this was good enough for now.
It's different in the sense
Ivan Kanis ivan.ka...@googlemail.com writes:
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org wrote:
bbdb-gnus.el contains some code for announcing BBDB records in the
summary buffer. It includes the user variables
bbdb/gnus-summary-mark-known-posters
bbdb/gnus-summary-show-bbdb-names
there ever been a plan to make organizations
first-class citizens in the database?
Eric
From d886366b44d453454a06493c3ffa80009493972b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:37:03 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] TAB completion for editing/creating
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes:
On Fri Dec 28 2012 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
No one asked for this, but it's something I've wanted for a while, so I
did it, and am attaching a patch if it's of general interest.
I often add multiple records for different people at the same
organization
On Wed, Aug 08 2012, Julien Cubizolles wrote:
I just realized that I switched first and last names in my bbdb
records : I used to use the first field for the last name... Is there an
easy way to make the switch back on a record, something like a
bbdb-switch-first-last-name ?
I'm pretty sure
On Wed, Aug 08 2012, Julien Cubizolles wrote:
I recently switched to bbdb3 and couldn't find the function to merge
duplicates shown by bbdb-search-duplicates. In bbdb-2.36, pressing r in
the bbdb-show-duplicates used to merge the selected record with another
one.
The function is still the
For a while I've had a function for creating textual citations of my
BBDB contacts, that relied on `bbdb-dwim-mail'. I expanded that to make
use of org's link syntax, so that you can insert a BBDB link on the
spot, without having to first visit your *BBDB* buffer and create a link
there. I find
On Thu, Apr 05 2012, Sriram ET. wrote:
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Marc Croteau mdcrot...@gmail.com
wrote:
The install file of the BBDB V3 git download requests that
bugs,
comments etc be submitted to the bbdb-info mailing list. See
below:
It does not answer my
On Tue, Mar 06 2012, ma...@kermodei.com wrote:
Is anyone working on or through about export support for BBDB
V3? My particular need is for Google export, however I suspect
iPhone users may also need this.
For V2, I use the unofficial bbdb-to-outlook package to create a
CSV for import into
On Fri, Nov 11 2011, Thorsten wrote:
[...]
Problem solved, now I can use gnus without any (unwanted) interference
from bbdb again. Only have to find out, how the wanted interference
works.
Cheers
I had the same irritations as you, and found the same solution. My
wanted interference setup
On Tue, Nov 08 2011, Peter Münster wrote:
On Mon, Nov 07 2011, Peter Münster wrote:
(defadvice gnus-summary-resend-message (around resend-with-bbdb (address n)
activate)
Resend message with bbdb address completion.
(flet
On Mon, Nov 07 2011, Peter Münster wrote:
Hello,
What should I do, to get completion of email addresses in the
mini-buffer, when using `gnus-summary-resend-message' (S-D-r)?
TIA for any hint!
Well, this is really only a hint, but that command uses
`message-read-from-minibuffer', which will
On Mon, Nov 07 2011, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
On Mon, Nov 07 2011, Peter Münster wrote:
Hello,
What should I do, to get completion of email addresses in the
mini-buffer, when using `gnus-summary-resend-message' (S-D-r)?
TIA for any hint!
Well, this is really only a hint, but that command
On Sun, Oct 30 2011, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 08:58:19 +0700 Eric Abrahamsen e...@ericabrahamsen.net
wrote:
EA On Fri, Oct 28 2011, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
I put together some code that uses CouchDB to store Gnus group
subscriptions and marks in gnus-sync.el. It works well; so
On Fri, Oct 28 2011, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
I put together some code that uses CouchDB to store Gnus group
subscriptions and marks in gnus-sync.el. It works well; so well in fact
that I'm considering doing the same for BBDB records. Imagine having
your BBDB entirely stored on a central server
On Tue, Oct 11 2011, Roland Winkler wrote:
Hello,
I incorporated a bunch of smaller changes and bug fixes.
(Thanks to everyone who contributed to this in one or the other way!)
- Editing and display of names (full names, first-last, last-first)
can be customized, see bbdb-name-format
On Mon, Oct 17 2011, Roland Winkler wrote:
On Mon Oct 17 2011 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
In my quest to complicate things, would it be possible to:
Set `bbdb-read-name-format' to `fullname'. Then allow the user to put a
comma in the name. `bbdb-read-name' (and/or `bbdb-record-edit-name')
looks
On Sun, Oct 02 2011, Roland Winkler wrote:
On Sun Oct 2 2011 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
Can you drop any hints about how it will change? Extra arguments?
I didn't want to do anything fancy. Yet if the field argument
doesn't match anything what it is supposed to match now, the new
code also
On Sun, Oct 02 2011, Roland Winkler wrote:
On Fri Sep 30 2011 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
1. If there's no value for a field, you get a nice ugly nil. Ideally
we'd have conditional insertion of strings depending on whether or
not there's a value for a given field, but that means we can't use
On Mon, Sep 26 2011, Roland Winkler wrote:
On Mon Sep 26 2011 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
While we're on the subject of features that won't be considered until
version 3 is finished, if ever
I've been writing a small function to export BBDB records according to
an arbitrary text template. I'm
the bracket. So:
Eric{Abrahamsen
王}小波
{Lucky Star Buffet Restaurant
Bartók}Béla
On second thought, if you did it this way, BBDB could learn from the
parsing the proper display order of the name, and store that as a
boolean with the name itself. Parsing would be a little more
complicated
On Fri, Aug 12 2011, Roland Winkler wrote:
On Fri Aug 12 2011 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
I'm using git versions of gnus and bbdb, and something somewhere loves
to put a - in the minibuffer when I hit ; for
bbdb-mua-edit-notes-sender and a few other actions, I can't quite see a
pattern. I don't
On Thu, Aug 11 2011, Roland Winkler wrote:
On Sun Aug 7 2011 Peter Münster wrote:
The question was rather, if there was a function like
`bbdb-mua-edit-notes-ALL'. My solution:
--8---cut here---start-8---
(local-set-key : '(lambda () (interactive)
On Thu, Aug 11 2011, Roland Winkler wrote:
On Thu Aug 11 2011 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
Hey, this was a great bit of information -- I've long been confused
about the best way to get someone in the database if you're not
automatically adding unknown senders. So now with a prefix arg : asks
Hi,
I'm trying to show known posters in the gnus summary buffer. I've got:
bbdb/gnus-summary-mark-known-posters: t
bbdb/gnus-summary-known-poster-mark: +
bbdb/gnus-summary-in-bbdb-format-letter: b
gnus-summary-line-format: %U%R%7L%b: %I%f %-50= %s %-120= |%user-date;\n
None of my bbdb records
On Sun, Apr 24 2011, Roland Winkler wrote:
On Sun Apr 24 2011 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
Seems like preserving line breaks in multi-line fields (and removing
any left-hand whitespace) would be all the formatting you'd need
Well, I guess that extracting the field from the database with just
On Sun, Apr 24 2011, Roland Winkler wrote:
On Sat Apr 23 2011 Leo wrote:
I have one suggestion. I think making TAB move from field to field is
useful. For example, in the following record, assume point at `R'ichard,
TAB could move from R - F - m - n - next record
Sounds like a good idea.
On Sun, Apr 24 2011, Roland Winkler wrote:
On Sun Apr 24 2011 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
If I could add a rider request to this, it would be great to have a
single key command to copy the field contents to the kill ring (the way
'M' does now for the primary mail address). I often need to copy
Here's something off the internet that I've been using with gnus to
automatically encrypt email based on a contact's S/MIME certificate, the
path to that certificate being stored in a 'certfile field in their
BBDB record. It doesn't work now, with the CVS version of BBDB. I know
Hi,
I'm using the CVS BBDB along with the most recent No-Gnus.
I've set bbdb/news-auto-create-p to 'prompt for certain groups. For
unknown senders I'm prompted to add a record to the database as
expected, and my choices seem to be (y,!,n,s,q,?).
y and n seem to be self-explanatory, but I'd like
Wow, no kidding, that's a lot better. Pity about the lack of a nice info
file, but I'll go source-code spelunking now. Thanks for the pointer!
E
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