Re: BBDB or BADB (born again database)

2010-06-05 Thread JJ
I'm trying to use this version and set it up to ignore some messages and not have BBDB offer to create their BBDB entries, like for mailing lists etc. But it's not working. For instance, I want to have BBDB not offer to create a record for any mail from @talk.maemo.org so I set it up thus: (setq

Re: BBDB or BADB (born again database)

2010-06-03 Thread JJ
bbdb-insert-field fails when bbdb-phone-style is set to 'euro with: Error: not a valid number: 0 Thus, there is no way with your changes to currently insert a phone number to an already created record that's not in a US format. Can you post a patch? -- JJ

Re: BBDB or BADB (born again database)

2010-05-27 Thread JJ
JJ bbdb-info_lists.sourceforge@sumou.com writes: I don't get prompted whether to notice new records when reading mail. Which variable should I set to get prompted whether to notice new mail addresses, and alternatively which variable to set to not notice new ones? To answer myself, to not

Re: BBDB or BADB (born again database)

2010-05-26 Thread JJ
On Fri, 14 May 2010 10:06:59 -0500, Roland Winkler roland.wink...@physik.uni-erlangen.de wrote: Please see my posting on the gnu-emacs-sources mailing list, http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-emacs-sources/2010-05/msg00019.html I don't get prompted whether to notice new records when reading

Re: BBDB or BADB (born again database)

2010-05-25 Thread Roland Winkler
On Tue May 25 2010 JJ wrote: (define-key bbdb-mode-map z 'bbdb-read-note) (defun bbdb-read-note (bbdb-record) (interactive (list (bbdb-current-record t) t)) (message ((bbdb-record-note bbdb-record notes I overlooked part two of your email: interactive specifies

Re: BBDB or BADB (born again database)

2010-05-24 Thread JJ
Roland Winkler roland.wink...@physik.uni-erlangen.de writes: That's strange. bbdb-record-note returns the value of a particular note. Similarly, bbdb-record-set-note should set it. So which part in the above code fails? Have you tried to debug this code using the emacs debugger? Put a (debug)

Re: BBDB or BADB (born again database)

2010-05-24 Thread Roland Winkler
On Tue May 25 2010 JJ wrote: (defun bbdb-write-note (bbdb-record) (interactive (list (bbdb-current-record t) t)) (bbdb-record-set-note bbdb-record notes Test Test Test)) Have you tried to quote the second arg of bbdb-record-set-note?

Re: BBDB or BADB (born again database)

2010-05-23 Thread Uday S Reddy
On 5/17/2010 9:13 PM, J. David Boyd wrote: Here's what I get: db...@flm25lve9f ~/.emacs.d/bbdb-3.0 $ make Wrote /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/DBoyd/.emacs.d/bbdb-3.0/bbdb.elc Cannot open load file: .././loadpath.el make: *** [bbdb-com.elc] Error 255 I have the same problem too. Cheers,

Re: BBDB or BADB (born again database)

2010-05-23 Thread Roland Winkler
On Wed May 19 2010 JJ wrote: The bbdb-nokia-n900 still works with your BBDB, in so far as it makes calls and sends SMSes (haven't tried the SMS, but assume it does) it gets stuck at the end of the bbdb-nokia-n900-call function where it is written to automatically add the date, time, number

Re: BBDB or BADB (born again database)

2010-05-23 Thread Roland Winkler
On Thu May 20 2010 JJ wrote: I guess I'm having problems with this since the notes in every record are a list. I've tried to decipher the bbdb-migrate to see how the record's note field is manipulated. Could you give a simple elisp example how to do the following two things: -

Re: BBDB or BADB (born again database)

2010-05-23 Thread Roland Winkler
On Sun May 23 2010 Uday S Reddy wrote: On 5/17/2010 9:13 PM, J. David Boyd wrote: Here's what I get: db...@flm25lve9f ~/.emacs.d/bbdb-3.0 $ make Wrote /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/DBoyd/.emacs.d/bbdb-3.0/bbdb.elc Cannot open load file: .././loadpath.el make: *** [bbdb-com.elc] Error

Re: BBDB or BADB (born again database)

2010-05-23 Thread Roland Winkler
On Mon May 24 2010 Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: I've put your tarball unpacked as a branch BADB in the git repo at http://github.com/barak/BBDB and would welcome patches/fixes there. Thank you! -- In the long run, I would like to put the code (also) on something like sourceforge or savannah.

Re: BBDB or BADB (born again database)

2010-05-22 Thread Eraldo Helal
;; just some personal feedback. This is a very interesting thread to me. :) I like the idea of writing SMS and dialing with emacs a lot. However I have to admit that I have not fully gotten the scope of BBDB vs BADB. Is BADB the 'new' BBDB.. or is this more of a testing branch? In any way...

Re: BBDB or BADB (born again database)

2010-05-20 Thread JJ
JJ bbdb-info_lists.sourceforge@sumou.com writes: Basically I need to properly retrieve the note part of the contact's record, concat it to the call time, date etc. and write it back. I guess I'm having problems with this since the notes in every record are a list. I've tried to decipher

Re: BBDB or BADB (born again database)

2010-05-19 Thread JJ
Roland Winkler roland.wink...@physik.uni-erlangen.de writes: Where did you put the defun of bbdb-record-notes ? It's gone from bbdb.el, yet is still used by bbdb-record-note etc. The old BBDB distinguished between notes and raw-notes. This distinction does not exist anymore in my code. So

Re: BBDB or BADB (born again database)

2010-05-19 Thread Roland Winkler
On Wed May 19 2010 Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: So, um, which version of BBDB in the CVS tree did you start with? Perhaps, the tar file at http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/bbdb-2.35.tar.gz Yes, I used the this tar file to get started. Later I also looked at the CVS, but I thought there werenot so

Re: BBDB or BADB (born again database)

2010-05-18 Thread Roland Winkler
I suggest to continue these discussions on the list bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net that is better suited for this. On Tue May 18 2010 Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: I've tried to do some minor BBDB hacking, mainly just maintenance to keep the Debian package working, and have my current version

Re: BBDB or BADB (born again database)

2010-05-16 Thread Mark Diekhans
Given that the documentation is being drop, it seems more like a new project being forks from an existing code base rather than a continuation of the existing BBDB. So I would suggest using a different name. Roland Winkler roland.wink...@physik.uni-erlangen.de writes: Please see my posting on

BBDB or BADB (born again database)

2010-05-14 Thread Roland Winkler
Please see my posting on the gnu-emacs-sources mailing list, http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-emacs-sources/2010-05/msg00019.html r. -- ___