I am running the head of bbdb with emacs 22.3.1. I had a .bbdb file
that specified iso-8859-1 as coding system with a line that looked like:
;; -*-coding: iso-8859-1;-*- at the front. (I've been using this file
since 1994 or so.) I have a bunch of names in my .bbdb with
non-iso-8859-1 character
On my mail machine I replaced a lot of packages, including bringing
emacs to 22.3 from 22.1. This morning I started up gnus (head from gnus
cvs) and bbdb threw errors and left my .bbdb munged. I had recent
compiled elisp of gnus (but from 22.1) and compiled elisp of ancient cvs
bbdb from I'm not
db. add?' query took y/n/o for yes/no/old, where o meant 'add
it to net-old'. I get this when going through old mail from people no
longer at the email address when they sent it, since I fight the
system and try to keep those addrs out of net.
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So, I think good behavior (i.e. to do what I want) would be to only do
the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" => "User Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" transform
if there is no name recorded for this entry.
In the meantime, I've added 'john d.' as an AKA so I won't get asked
a
With Emacs 20.7.1, I got several complaints about mapc being unbound.
I found a few places in the source where plain mapc is used, rather
than bbdb-mapc. The following patch against current CVS seems to fix
the problem, although I have not tested extensively.
Index: lisp/bbdb-com.el
