Re: adding fields

2014-03-30 Thread Steven Arntson
"Roland Winkler" writes: Hi Roland, Here's my steps to produce the problem. Starting from *BBDB* buffer, I hit 'c' to create an entry. Prompted for "Name" I enter "Fake Entry" and his RET. Prompted for "Organizations" I enter nothing, just hit RET. Prompted for "email" I enter "f...@entry.org" a

Re: adding fields

2014-03-30 Thread Dave Goldberg
> "Roland Winkler" writes: > I think I've got an invisible organization field, somehow. I have, for > instance, an short entry like: > Friendly Acquaintence - > mail: frien...@provider.com > When I try 'i' and then "organization," I'm told the field > already exists. I've tried putti

Re: adding fields

2014-03-29 Thread Roland Winkler
On Fri Mar 28 2014 Steven Arntson wrote: > I think I've got an invisible organization field, somehow. I'd be curious to know how you succeeded to create an organization field which appears to consist of an empty string. This should not happen and there seems to be a bug *somewhere*. If you can

Re: adding fields

2014-03-28 Thread Steven Arntson
"Roland Winkler" writes: I think I've got an invisible organization field, somehow. I have, for instance, an short entry like: Friendly Acquaintence - mail: frien...@provider.com When I try 'i' and then "organization," I'm told the field already exists. I've tried putting point in ev

Re: adding fields

2014-03-28 Thread Roland Winkler
On Fri Mar 28 2014 Steven Arntson wrote: > For some reason the version of BBDB I got from M/ELPA came with a > "manual" that contains only a single sentence, which is "The first > chapter is the only chapter in this sample." Yes, the current info pages of BBDB v3 are just a stub. (Volunteers welco

Re: adding fields

2014-03-28 Thread Steven Arntson
For some reason the version of BBDB I got from M/ELPA came with a "manual" that contains only a single sentence, which is "The first chapter is the only chapter in this sample." I'm running emacs in an environment without a menu bar, and have used minibuffer completion a few times, but sometimes I

Re: adding fields

2014-03-28 Thread Roland Winkler
On Fri Mar 28 2014 Steven Arntson wrote: > The explanations I've found about how to do this involve 'C-o' to > invoke 'bbdb-insert-new-field'. However, this doesn't seem to be > the correct approach for v.3. Typing 'M-x bbdb-insert-new-field' > gives me a message of "No match" in the minibuffer. C

adding fields

2014-03-28 Thread Steven Arntson
I'm a beginning user of bbdb, using version 3 (I think) which I just got from the package system on emacs. I'm trying to add fields to an entry, without much luck. For instance, I create a new entry ('c' in the *BBDB* buffer) and enter a name, organization, and email when prompted. Then, later, I