Re: quotes

2009-04-02 Thread Len Trigg
At Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:45:30 +0900, Randy Bush wrote: > > for an mua, i use wanderlust under emacs and use bbdb as the address > book maintainer. > > bbdb views > "Bob Jones" > as different from > "'Bob Jones'" > and asks me if i want to add/aka, which is annoying. > > is there an

Re: Sending mail

2008-06-05 Thread Len Trigg
Alejandro Benitez wrote: > Can I configure BBDB to create records out of the addresses I add in "To:", > "Cc:", etc fields when sending mail ? Indeed, that's how I have it set to work. I use something like this with wanderlust, I assume something similar is possible in other mail clients: ;; I

Re: how to disable name mismatching updates.

2007-09-16 Thread Len Trigg
François Lagarde wrote: > I would like to know if it is possible to tell to bbdb to never update names > when they mismatch. Something like > bbdb-quiet-about-name-mismatches nil (never update names...) (setq bbdb-quiet-about-name-mismatches 1) Should do what you want. (See earlier messages to t

Re: Want BBDB update to ignore name/AKA updates for some records.

2007-02-25 Thread Len Trigg
Robert Widhopf-Fenk wrote: > Are you paranoid, or are there any bugs I missed ? ;-) Mostly I just cut'n'pasted from elsewhere :-) > Your code should give you an error when a record has a > "readonly" field as you are returning a string which is > neither t nor a number. BTW (if "" t) will retur

Re: Want BBDB update to ignore name/AKA updates for some records.

2007-02-18 Thread Len Trigg
Robert Widhopf-Fenk wrote: > In CVS bbdb-quiet-about-name-mismatches can be a function or > sexp now in order to tweak handling of name mismatches. > > This is not as mighty as modifying bbdb-readonly-p would be, > but it is meant for what Len originally wanted. Works a treat. My bbdb-quiet-abou

Re: Want BBDB update to ignore name/AKA updates for some records.

2007-02-13 Thread Len Trigg
Nix wrote: > On 13 Feb 2007, Len Trigg told this: > > I had a bit of a hack and this is what I came up with (bits were > > copied from the beginning of bbdb-annotate-message-sender). Basically > > it sets bbdb-readonly-p to true if there's a field called readonly >

Re: Want BBDB update to ignore name/AKA updates for some records.

2007-02-12 Thread Len Trigg
Len Trigg wrote: > Robert Widhopf-Fenk wrote: > > No, but maybe you just want to ignore the messages which go > > to the mailing list. I tried setting things up this way and, it doesn't work for me. I have bbdb/mail-auto-create-p and bbdb/news-auto-create-p both set to n

Re: Want BBDB update to ignore name/AKA updates for some records.

2007-02-12 Thread Len Trigg
Robert Widhopf-Fenk wrote: > On Monday, February 12, 2007 at 09:40:13, Len Trigg wrote: > > I would like to add a bbdb field to these records (e.g. fixed-name), > > and tell Wanderlust/BBDB to never update the name/AKA for those > > records. Does anybody have a lisp snippet t

Want BBDB update to ignore name/AKA updates for some records.

2007-02-11 Thread Len Trigg
While there's a bit of Wanderlust/BBDB activity I'll get in with a question I've been meaning to ask. Here's the problem. I have Wanderlust happily passing messages to BBDB update BBDB records. However for mailing list addresses, nearly every sender has a different name associated with the addre

BBDB completion

2005-08-09 Thread Len Trigg
I'm confused about how bbdb does its completion. I have bbdb-completion-type set to primary-or-name. I have about 10 "John"s in my BBDB, yet, when I bbdb-complete-name on John, the completion window only shows 3 entries. Is this a bug? I also have a bunch of acquired AKAs that are basically bo