cs" is clear enough, IMO. RMS, who wrote
Emacs, wants his users to call his program "Emacs", and I see no reason
not to comply with such a simple request.
You moron.
--
Jamie Zawinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwz.org
ling lists quite right yet,
writes out the notes fields incorrectly (I think) and probably ought to
have a configurable list of fields not to bother converting. Or
something.
--
Jamie Zawinski[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netscape.com/people/jwz/
``A signature isn't a return address, it is
Aaron Roydhouse wrote:
Tom Sometimes I get mail from someone with a loargish CC: list. I
Tom already have the sender in my BBDB, but I want to automatically
Tom put all of the CC: addresses into the BBDB.
Your suggestion prompted me to think of another possible feature. It
would be
termination. When I encounter
two people with the same name, I decide which one is more useful, and have
the other killed.
This also has a small impact on that other nagging problem: too many people,
too little beachfront property.
--
Jamie Zawinski[EMAIL PROTECTED] http
But mail-extr does this already:
(mail-extract-address-components "\"foo, bar\" baz") = ("bar foo" "baz")
make sure you have the latest version.
-- Jamie
almost like... a database system of some kind.
--
Jamie Zawinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mosaic.mcom.com/people/jwz/
``A unix signature isn't a return address, it's the ASCII equivalent of a black
velvet clown painting. It's a rectangle of carets surrounding a quote from
Graham Gough wrote:
which was accessible outside emacs (yes, there is life outside emacs).
You have not yet found The Way.
In order to make the BBDB info accessible in the same way I've written
a simple function to dump phone nos out of BBDB, so now my phone
WHAP!
(And suddenly, years
Hi kids,
Lucid laid me off on wednesday, along with about half of the company.
I start work at Mosaic Communications on monday, where I'll be doing
all kinds of winning World Wide Webbery.
Lucid Emacs, which will probably have a sillier name in the future, is
now in the hands of Chuck Thompson
Deepak Narain wrote:
At the risk of sounding stupid in front of tens of thousands (okay,
slight exaggeration) of people:
Whenever I am done using bbdb, it takes over my minibuffer and does
strange things to it (like putting a - and echoing every character I
type anywhere into the
AMS is the only thing that has ever implemented Return-receipt-to correctly.
It needs to be in the MUA, not the MTA. Of what possible use is it to know
that it has ended up in the sendmail queue on the destination machine?
Jack Repenning wrote:
Message sent off your system
Message arrived at recipient's system
Message delivered to recipient's mailbox
Message actually read by recipient
I always had my doubts about a system that not only provided, but actually
needed, an
That code I sent out yesterday was nfg. If you applied it, use this:
(defun bbdb/vm-get-from (msg)
(setq msg (vm-real-message-of msg))
;; Unfortunately the first arm of this if doesn't work because VM gloms
;; the various names and addresses of multi-recipient messages together
;; into
Try this:
*** bbdb.el.~1~ Fri Feb 18 14:40:21 1994
--- bbdb.el Mon Apr 11 17:38:29 1994
***
*** 1818,1824
If PROMPT-TO-CREATE-P is true, then the user will be asked for confirmation
before the record is created, otherwise it is created without confirmation
\(assuming
Stainless Steel Rat wrote:
If there are any bangs (!) in the From field, an error occours in
mail-extr-nuke-outside-range when it attempts to invoke (setcar temp nil).
Here's the traceback of the relevant code:
Works for me. You must be running an old mail-extr.
Colin Owen Rafferty wrote:
Is it just another problem that 'mail-extract-address-components has?
No, it's a problem with the address. My testcases show that 99% of the
time, " - " is of the form "Some Name - Some Pinhead Slogan". Take out
the spaces around the - and mail-extr will parse it
Eric D. Hendrickson wrote:
Is there a way to merge BBDB databases?
Nope.
Up until today, I have been receiving e-mail on one system, and other
mail on another system. Each with their own BBDB database.
You are, as they say, out of luck.
When I try to simply concatenate them (after
Not much new; I've been bullied into this release by all the people asking
me why it stopped working with the latest VM... It's in the usual place:
lucid.com: pub/hacks/bbdb-1.50.tar.gz. Here's a patch from 1.49. Most
of this patch is a new version of mail-extr, let me know how it works.
BBDB started out as an experiment in programming constraint frames and
scrollbars in the TI Explorer window system.
I think it worked out very well for that.
-- Jamie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I always do bbdb-changed before saving.
My bbdb has 2500+ entries (400K).
sound of knuckles cracking 2584.
Every few months I do M-x bbdb-notes ^$ and nuke anyone who doesn't look
interesting. Yeah, it takes forever. Knowing how hard it would be to
speed it up has
Someone send me what they think is the best-working version of bbdb-mhe.el.
I haven't been able to keep track of all the patches in the last few months.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, has anyone else noticed that some bbdb entries are being copied?
I've got whole records which are exact copies of one another sitting about.
Is there any way for BBDB to automatically check for this and correct (ask)
it?
This is Bad. Unfortunately it's hard
Lance A. Brown wrote:
I did some more playing around and realized what has changed. Felix
Lee's nntp.el file causes bbdb to do a LOT of
reading/formatting/frobnicating when a newsgroup is selected.
This really doesn't make any sense, frobnication should happen only once
per emacs session,
I haven't done a whole lot, but it seemed like enough had accumulated
for a release; see the diffs in the texinfo file for details. The
whole package is on lucid.com in pub/hacks/ as usual.
(Please don't reply to bbdb-announce; use [EMAIL PROTECTED])
-- Jamie
-- slice 'n' dice
ng sections in the tutorial part.
;; @@ Terminology:
;; ===
;; - GNU Emacs-19: GNU's version of Emacs with major version 19
;; - Lemacs: Lucid's version of Emacs with major version 19
;; - v18: Any Emacs with major version 18 or built as an extension to that
;;(such as Epoch)
;;
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(let ((username (car (bbdb-split net "@"
(bbdb-record-set-firstname record username)
(bbdb-puthash (downcase (bbdb-record-name record))
record)
This is
Scott Lawrence wrote:
There are a great many people here using VMS mail, one component
of which adds a date-time stamp into the From field of a mail header
such that I receive header lines like this:
From: node::user (Real U. Name 01-Oct-1993 1316 -0400)
That's absolutely
That's what ":" and ";" do.
Anantha Padmanabha N. Srirama wrote:
I have had a couple of instances where due to a bad line (or record)
in the .bbdb file BBDB gets completely hosed. This has caused a lot
of pain for me in the last couple of weeks. Can BBDB be made a little
more robust so that it
Cengiz Alaettinoglu wrote:
P.S. IMHO, I think bbdb is missing a lisp function when passed an
alist like ((name . "Foo") (net . "foo@bar") ...) would create/update
the corresponding bbdb record.
That's what bbdb-create-internal is for.
Cengiz Alaettinoglu wrote:
It does not update the record if the record is in the database,
instead it signals an error.
Use bbdb-search-simple to see if the record is there; use bbdb-record-putprop
to change the non-builtin slots. Other than that, all you've got to work with
is
Cengiz Alaettinoglu wrote:
Thank you. I assume I would be safe (i.e. would not corrupt my
database) if I avoid updating the name and the net fields. Is this
right?
Yes, but if you use anything more primitive than I mentioned, then you have to
worry about keeping the in-memory data
Jon Degenhardt wrote:
Now I have BBDB on both a PC and a Unix system, a situation I wanted.
Except, it would nice to be able to merge two BBDB databases to keep
them consistent. Perhaps some like running bbdb-refile-record on records
with equal keys (using comparison ala bbdb-create) and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1) When I invoke the bbdb with m-x bbdb, it asks for a regular expression.
If I supply anything but a new line I get an error message:
"bbdb: cannot access the name field this way"
That doesn't happen for me...
2) When I'm in bbdb, how do I move records in and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The version of mail-extr that comes with GNU emacs v19 and bbdb do not
seem to get along particularly well. Mail-extr now returns the raw
email address if it can't get any better idea for the person's name,
That's not useful behavior (it loses information). Just
Rod Whitby wrote:
Jamie, do you intend to include the second part of the patch in BBDB
distribution (the part that allows the STRING field of the
auto-notes-alist record to be a string, integer or function) ?
Sure, looks fine.
If so, I will hack some more on the extract-field function to
d messages such that their
headers look like this:
From: Jamie Zawinski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Whitby)
Subject: fwd
From: some weenie
To: some other weenie
Subject: something else
the forwarded message body
Clearly this is about as low tech a forwarding method
Well, I haven't spent much time on BBDB in a while, but it's been a long
time since I made the last release, and a bunch of fixes have managed to
creep in since then, so I guess it's about time...
I was going to send a patch, but it was 100k, and since the compressed
tar file is only 150k,
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