Re: newbie questions

1993-09-28 Thread Josef Schneeberger
> On Mon, 27 Sep 93 10:08:52 PDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raymond E. Suorsa) >said: > "Mike" == Mike Northam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 24 Sep 93 12:30:30 PDT, Jamie Zawinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Jamie> I use bbdb-create about once every six months (and then Jamie> only

Re: newbie questions

1993-09-27 Thread Martin Maechler
I DO use bbdb 1.48 AND GNU Emacs 19.19 --- nicely working. What did I 'change' ? 1) Make sure that BBDB's 'mail-extr.el[c]' files are used -- NOT GNU Emacs 19 ones. [this was suggested in the bbdb-list by Jamie Z.] This was the only NECESSARY thing to stop occasional 'c

Re: newbie questions

1993-09-27 Thread Raymond E. Suorsa
> "Mike" == Mike Northam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 24 Sep 93 12:30:30 PDT, Jamie Zawinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Jamie> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jamie> I use bbdb-create about once every six months (and then Jamie> only for people without email); the easiest way to cre

Re: newbie questions

1993-09-24 Thread Mike Northam
> On Fri, 24 Sep 93 12:30:30 PDT, Jamie Zawinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Jamie> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 3) Also, in bbdb how do I create entirely NEW records? It isn't obvious > from the mode help. Oh, wait, I found it. It's bbdb-create and it's not > bound to any keys in the mode.

Re: newbie questions

1993-09-24 Thread Jamie Zawinski
[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

newbie questions

1993-09-24 Thread vinson
Okay, so I am new at this. Just installed the bbdb today. I plan to use bbdb with Rmail, and as an address book, of course. If there is a FAQ file somewhere, you could point me to that rather than answering all my questions... 1) When I invoke the bbdb with m-x bbdb, it asks for a regular ex