When I looked at the code once more, I realized an annoying
inconsistency:
bbdb-mua-edit-field and friends do not use the "default user
variable" bbdb-mua-update-interactive-p used by commands such as
bbdb-mua-display-records. Currently they simply ignore the optional
arg update-p so that the mua-specific fallbacks such as
bbdb/gnus-update-records-p are used by these commands.
I consider this a suboptimal solution. It would be more consistent
if these commands obeyed bbdb-mua-update-interactive-p just like the
other MUA commands. Yet the problem lies in the usage of the prefix
arg:
Commands such as bbdb-mua-display-records can use their prefix arg for
the two alternatives implemented by bbdb-mua-update-interactive-p.
Commands such as bbdb-mua-edit-field use their prefix arg for something
else.
So I can think of two possible strategies:
(1) bbdb-mua-edit-field and friends use the "no-prefix value" of
bbdb-mua-update-interactive-p.
(2) All MUA commands use a separate prefix key for the two
alternatives provided by bbdb-mua-update-interactive-p. This
would be similar to the prefix keys `*' and `+' in the *BBDB*
buffer. Then the different MUA commands can use the normal
prefix arg for whatever they like without a conflict with
bbdb-mua-update-interactive-p.
Here a problem is finding a suitable key: The *BBDB* buffer has
its own keymap so that there are many keys available for such a
feature. In the MUA buffers, the key bindings for the MUA
commands can use only those keys that are not used for anything
else.
Thoughts? Comments? Other suggestions?
Roland
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