Hello,
I have been working with BBDB 2.33 (with Gnus) for several months and have
been bugged by two problems.
1. I thought BBDB used to be able to understand that "Vinson, Jack" was the
same as "Jack Vinson." However, with this version it is not able to
equate th
the function or with the BBDB entry,
but I don't see anything obviously wrong with the BBDB entry. This was
happening with version 2.32 as well.
Thanks,
Jack Vinson
Emacs : GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (i386-*-windows95.1212)
of Tue Jun 13 2000 on buffy
Package: BBDB 2.33
Gnus: version 5.8.8
cu
- GNU Emacs 19.28.1 under Sun Sparc Solaris 2.3
I would guess that your .bbdb file is corrupt. Try looking in the file
itself to see if there are strange formatting characters in it. I had
problems once in a while when I got font-lock or highlight info in the name
field of my database.
s-hook. This
will let you set up a variable, bbdb-auto-notes-alist, in which you can add
to various fields of the bbdb record. The docstring on the
bbdb-auto-notes-alist variable is fairly self-explanatory.
--
Jack Vinson Sunderland, MA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]<http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~vinson/home.html>
"There's balogna in our slacks."
You should always be able to find it (and most other Emacs packages) at the
Emacs Lisp archive at Ohio State:
archive.cis.ohio-state.edu/pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive
BBDB 1.50 is in the packages directory.
Jack Vinson Off www.cern.ch...
[EMAIL PROTECTED
((bufferp address)
(insert-buffer-substring address))
(t
(error "Illegal address: %s" address)))
;Turn off any text properties in this buffer: Jack Vinson 20 July 1995
(set-text-properties (point-min) (point-max) nil)
;; stolen fr
uot;, but I just change it back
with
(setq gnus-bbdb-summary-known-poster-mark "*")
in my gnus-init-file.
Hopefully, that is everything.
Jack Vinson - - - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sunderland, MA
<http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~vinson/home.html>
"Jesus rides beside me. He never buys any smokes" The Replacements
9:52 1995
--- mail-extr.elThu Jul 20 15:52:07 1995
***
*** 760,765
--- 760,767
(insert-buffer-substring address))
(t
(error "Illegal address: %s" address)))
+ ;Turn off any text properties in this buffer: Jack Vinson 20 Jul
ail-extr.elThu Jul 20 08:59:20 1995
***
*** 760,765
--- 760,767
(insert-buffer-substring address))
(t
(error "Illegal address: %s" address)))
+ ;Turn off all text properties in this buffer: Jack Vinson 20 July 1995
+
That patch I sent only works if font-lock is a current feature. I just
realized this on starting a new emacs. There must be a better way to clear
a buffer/region of all non-default face information.
Jack Vinson - - - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sunderland, MA
WWW: "http://www.cis.upen
***
*** 760,765
--- 760,767
(insert-buffer-substring address))
(t
(error "Illegal address: %s" address)))
+ ;Turn off font-lock in this buffer: Jack Vinson 20 July 1995
+ (font-lock-unfontify-region (point-min) (point-ma
For what it's worth, I've had this problem for quite a while before
emacs-19.28/29. I doubt that it is soley based on emacs-19.29.
Jack
[copied to the list]
> "SS" == Sam Steingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SS> There are some things though that seems to be missing (or is it just me
SS> who is missing them?):
SS> 1. It adds a record into the database on everyone who sends me e-mail,
SS>regardless of whether I press ":
x27;s value is nil
Documentation:
*List of buffer names that should have their own special frames.
Displaying a buffer whose name is in this list makes a special frame for it
using `special-display-function'. See also `special-display-regexps'.
Jonathan "Jack" Vins
> "MDC" == Michael D. Carney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MDC> Does anyone have any idea how to get around these things, or should I
MDC> just stay away from bbdb-electric mode.
Yick! Run away, run away! :-)
MDC> 3. Does anyone know how to make M-tab expand mail aliases as well as
MDC>
nn.edu" because all those machines are Sparcs or other
things which are based at eniac and I get tired of redundant network
entries.
Jonathan "Jack" Vinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Philadelphia, PA http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~vinson/home.html
"Churchill was a shopping bag" - Fatima Mansions
able to inherit the
type-checking done in the phone field.
Jack Vinson - Philadelphia, PA
Bart Simpson at the Chalkboard: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Underwear should be worn on the inside
Drat! I cleaned up the output and broke something else. Zeros at the
front of phone number parts were being dropped (thanks Joe Hildebrand).
Sorry about all the traffic on this one.
Jack
-- latest version of phone.perl
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
#Author: Jack Vinson: [EMAIL PROTECTED
l/bin/perl
#Author: Jack Vinson: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#Date: Tue Jun 28 1994
#Jack's attempt at parsing lisp objects via regexps in order to extract
# interesting info. In this case, I'm grabbing all the entries of the
# .bbdb file and displaying name and phone number if they exist.
script:
---
#!/bin/sh
grep -i -h $1 $HOME/.bbdb | $HOME/bin/phone.perl
---
Here is the actual code:
-- phone.perl ----
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
#Author: Jack Vinson: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#Date: Tue Jun 28 1994
#Jack's attempt at parsing lisp objects via regexps in order
out info on someone, I don't want it changing the
windows in the current frame.
Since, the function bbdb-pop-up-bbdb-buffer does not consider other frames,
I have simply disabled it and framepop takes care of the rest. Since I
sometimes do work from home, I have it conditionally disabled wh
ael . Mike) (Janet . Jane) ...)
2) Ignore middle names/initials when attempting to match names.
If you think I should do it, can you give me some pointers/hints?
Jack Vinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Purple Puddle Eater and Captain Jack
"Skin ain'
Has anyone noticed their bbdb entries disappearing from time to time? I
generally don't notice when they are gone, but rather discover that the
entry has disappeared when I am told that bbdb has noticed a "new" name
which I know to have been in my db previously.
to
a different buffer. Is there a way to fix this behavior?
Jack Vinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Purple Puddle Eater and Captain Jack
"Skin ain't got no tailored pockets." - Eat _Sell_Me_a_God_
comp)
"Turn off bbdb-pop-up-bbdb-buffer when using framepop."
(if (featurep 'framepop) nil
ad-do-it))
You can also do a simple re-define of the function when framepop is a
feature (I haven't tried this, so take it with a grain of salt.)
(if (featurep &#x
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?
Jack
iases and
define-mail-alias are called. What's missing?
Jack Vinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Purple Puddle Eater and Captain Jack
"Skin ain't got no tailored pockets." - Eat _Sell_Me_a_God_
)
(define-key gnus-summary-mode-map "\C-o" 'gnus-summary-bbdb-save-in-mail)
I would then do something similar with gnus-summary-reply...
Jack Vinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Purple Puddle Eater and Captain Jack
"Yo ee oo, we owe. No we don't, we own."-The Simpson's 21 October 1993 episode
I have one person in my bbdb who is "Joe Schmoe, III." If I type "Joe S"
and then M-tab to complete the name, bbdb completes the full name, and then
complains that it doesn't know anyone called "iii."
Are there any program fixes for this, or shall I just take the ", iii" out
of his name and let
Well, folks Jamie sent me a note suggesting my simple little
bbdb-notice-hook may actually cause problems with creating multiple db
entries for the same name. I've now added to that hook code from
bbdb-annotate-message-sender that checks for old names that match the
username before adding the ne
(bbdb-record-set-firstname record username)
(bbdb-puthash (downcase (bbdb-record-name record))
record)
(message "added \"%s\" as name for \"%s\"" username net)
There is a variable which controls this behavior...
If bbdb-use-pop-up is t, then bbdb will pop up that window when you are
reading your mail. Also, the size of the window that pops up is controlled
by bbdb-pop-up-target-lines. It's set to 5 in the normal case.
Jack V
Hello, I've changed the behavior of bbdb/rmail-show-sender and
..-edit-notes so that it uses bbdb-pop-up-bbdb-buffer (the small one), but
I wonder if there is a way to make this a little more universal if I ever
decide to start using gnus or whatever.
I wanted the change because I don't need a w
Why does the bbdb prompt stay in the minibuffer when I switch to other
buffers? Is there an easy way to have that not happen?
Jack
-create and it's not
bound to any keys in the mode. That is going to change soon...
Jack Vinson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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