Re: pop up elided display howto

2002-10-30 Thread Ronan Waide
On October 30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > appropriately in your bbdb-display-layout-alist. It all seems to be > getting a little cumbersome... This is one of the downsides of providing so much customisation. The other big one is testing all possible variables, which is damn near impossible with BB

Re: pop up elided display howto

2002-10-30 Thread Patrick Campbell-Preston
On Friday, October 25, 2002, I wrote: > My next tweak will probably be to write a filter function which > chooses one 'most useful' phone number or address to display in the > one line layout. Here it is - mostly in case anyone can see a neater way of doing it. All I'm trying to do is to choose

Re: pop up elided display howto

2002-10-25 Thread Robert Fenk
On Friday, October 25, 2002 at 20:10:29, Patrick Campbell-Preston wrote: [...] > My next tweak will probably be to write a filter function which > chooses one 'most useful' phone number or address to display in the > one line layout. > > My only quibble with the design is that the 'filter' approa

Re: pop up elided display howto

2002-10-25 Thread Patrick Campbell-Preston
Robert, > And I could not resist to also do some of the other stuff, > i.e. inheritance, filters, ... ;/ > Please test it! If I get positive feedback it might be committed ... Well I've tested it out and it all seems to work brilliantly. Thanks! My settings are now something like this: (s

display layout toggling bug (was Re: pop up elided display howto)

2002-10-25 Thread Patrick Campbell-Preston
In response to > > Setting bbdb-display-layout to non-nil, even when you want the > > default multi-line display, seems to fix a minor bug where > > bbdb-toggle-records-display-layout fails to do anything the first > > time you try to toggle in a new BBDB buffer. Robert Fenk wrote: > C

Re: pop up elided display howto

2002-10-25 Thread Robert Fenk
On Friday, October 25, 2002 at 15:51:57, Robert Fenk wrote: [...] > > I haven't found out how (again, short of hacking the layout > > functions) to get back the blank line which used to be between > > each multi-line record in the BBDB buffer. Could this be > > implemented as yet another layout op

Re: pop up elided display howto

2002-10-25 Thread Robert Fenk
On Friday, October 25, 2002 at 10:47:58, Patrick Campbell-Preston wrote: > > A year and a while ago, Robert Fenk dripped support for multiple > display layouts onto the bleeding edge of BBDB. At the time, he > said: > > > The old variables bbdb-elided-display and > > bbdb-pop-up-elided-display a

Re: pop up elided display howto

2002-10-25 Thread Patrick Campbell-Preston
I said: > I haven't found out how (again, short of hacking the layout functions) > to get back the blank line which used to be between each multi-line > record in the BBDB buffer. Could this be implemented as yet another > layout option? I've got a simple workaround for this for now, which does

pop up elided display howto

2002-10-25 Thread Patrick Campbell-Preston
A year and a while ago, Robert Fenk dripped support for multiple display layouts onto the bleeding edge of BBDB. At the time, he said: > The old variables bbdb-elided-display and > bbdb-pop-up-elided-display are obsolete now, > but still supported by a wrapper. Trying to catch up, I couldn't fi