On Sun Apr 17 2011 Nix wrote: > We could do the same job with a new hook which is called only once per > record, no matter how many times it is spotted by a given call to > bbdb-update-records, or with a new guarantee that the bbdb-notice-hook > would only fire once per record per call to bbdb-update-records. But > in the absence of that, an advisement is the only neat approach.
First I wanted to say that bbdb-notice-hook is really in the wrong place and that it might be better to move it elsewhere in the code. Yet the functions in this hook can refer to the particular email address in a message which actually triggered the noticing of a record (and maybe we have a message with two email addresses for the same person, so that the same record is matched twice by one message). So it seems to me it is useful to keep this hook where and what it is. Yet it appears also useful beyond your particular problem to have a hook which is called for each message only once per record. This could be done in bbdb-update-records, or probably yet better in bbdb-mua-update-records. Do you have a good name for such a hook? > I might as well sign one for all of Emacs: I have a bunch of patches to > that queued up for when the git repo ever unjams (if it ever does, sigh, > maybe I'll be forced to use bloody bzr: but last time I tried to branch > the emacs repo using that awful VCS I gave up after five hours). > > If I do an Emacs-wide one, will it apply to BBDB as well? (Sorry for the > stupid question, but the packages are so tightly related...) If someone has previously signed copyright assignments for GNU Emacs, these people need not sign new paperwork. Yet BBDB is not (yet?) part of GNU Emacs. So these people are asked to just email fsf-reco...@gnu.org, and tell them that their work on BBDB should be considered part of their Emacs assignment. If you have not yet signed any paperwork, it is probably the easiest if you simply say it is for Emacs and BBDB/Emacs. Roland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and improve application availability and disaster protection. Learn more about boosting the value of server virtualization. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
