Rupert Swarbrick <rswarbr...@gmail.com> writes: > Eraldo Helal <era...@eraldo.org> writes: >> In my bbdb file I have some empty stings and some nil values. >> I suspect inconsistancy due to importing data from gmail and cell phone. >> >> I now have some entries with first and last name emprty '["" ""'. >> Most of them have a net address only. >> When they get displeyed I get a blank line (where the name is normaly) >> and the net address in the second. >> The problem is however that I cannot change the name! >> When I am in the blank line and press 'e' I get this message 'on an >> unfield'. >> >> Any idea how to fix my database and where to find information on where >> an emty string is desired and where is found it's way without intention. > > Maybe this is a bit of a hack, but why not just edit the ~/.bbdb file? > It's text, so you could hack together a keyboard macro or maybe do a > query replace regex (C-M-%), replacing ^\["" with ^\["editme" or > something? > > Obviously, save a copy of ~/.bbdb first...
I solved it similar to what you suggested (replace regex). However I replaced it with nil instead of some string. This now gives me three questions marks as a name. Now I can edit the name when pressing 'e' while on the '???' line. Thank you Rupert! Greetings from Austria, Eraldo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
