Re: BBDB beginners guide?
Regarding Re: BBDB beginners guide?; Johnny yggdra...@gmx.co.uk adds: Ok, I have realised that the BBDB 2.35 documentation works ok and using 'C-h a', 'C-h v' goes a long way. However, I am trying to make BBDB stop asking me to add mail addresses. I found: bbdb-add-address(es) in the online documentation and set this to nil or 'never. Here is my setting: (still using 2.35 with Robert Fenks extensions) (require 'bbdb) (setq bbdb-use-pop-up nil bbdb-completion-display-record t) (add-hook 'mail-setup-hook 'bbdb-define-all-aliases) (add-hook 'gnus-message-setup-hook 'bbdb-define-all-aliases) (add-hook 'wl-mail-setup-hook 'bbdb-define-all-aliases) (setq bbdb-quiet-about-name-mismatches t) ;; that is useful since some mail clients don't deal with ;; NON ASCII chars in the same way. So Sometimes you receive ;; José sometims Jose (setq bbdb-send-mail-style 'gnus) ;chance that (setq bbdb-dwim-net-address-allow-redundancy t) (autoload 'bbdb/vm-auto-add-label bbdb-vm Run VM major mode on a buffer nil) (add-hook 'bbdb-notice-hook 'bbdb/vm-auto-add-label) (setq bbdb-complete-name-allow-cycling t) (bbdb-initialize 'gnus 'message) (add-hook 'gnus-startup-hook 'bbdb-insinuate-gnus) (require 'bbdb-anniv) (add-hook 'list-diary-entries-hook #'bbdb-include-anniversaries) (require 'bbdb-rf) In this setting every new mail (even spam) will add an entry to the BBDB (I once reached 3000 entries) that is where bbdb-expire comes in handy (require 'bbdb-expire) (setq bbdb-expire-this-old 7) ; all bbdb entries older than 7 days will be deleted, The only exceptions are entries with have the following fields. (bbdb-expire-field-foo-p 'mail-alias) (bbdb-expire-field-foo-p 'vm-folder) (bbdb-expire-field-foo-p 'vm-virtual) (bbdb-expire-field-foo-p 'tel) (bbdb-expire-field-foo-p 'news) (bbdb-expire-field-foo-p 'signature) (bbdb-expire-field-foo-p 'imap) ;Version:1.111 (bbdb-expire-field-foo-p 'mail-hierarchy) ;Version:1.112 (bbdb-expire-field-foo-p 'birthday) (bbdb-expire-field-foo-p 'face) (bbdb-expire-field-foo-p 'www) (setq bbdb-expire-preservation-functions '(bbdb-expire-field-permanent-p bbdb-expire-field-mail-alias-p bbdb-expire-field-vm-folder-p bbdb-expire-field-vm-virtual-p bbdb-expire-field-signature-p bbdb-expire-field-tel-p bbdb-expire-field-imap-p bbdb-expire-field-mail-hierarchy-p bbdb-expire-field-face-p bbdb-expire-field-birthday-p bbdb-expire-field-www-p bbdb-expire-field-news-p bbdb-expire-field-notes-p)) (bbdb-expire-initialize) Another extremely useful pkg is moy-bbdb since it adds an entry one a message is sent (and had no bbdb entry) (require 'moy-bbdb) (autoload 'bbdb/send-hook moy-bbdb Function to be added to `message-send-hook' to notice records when sending messages t) (add-hook 'message-send-hook 'bbdb/send-hook) ; If you use Gnus (add-hook 'mail-send-hook 'bbdb/send-hook) ; For other mailers ; (VM, Rmail) I also use the gnus splitting method and split messages according to their bbdb entry (I think this code is included in the official bbdb pkg) You can then use sigadapt which inserts signatures according bbdb entries. I used that code and have extension for adding gcc fields according to the bbdb entries and set also the ispell dictionary according to a bbdb entry called ispell-dict. If you are interested I can send you details. Uwe Brauer -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: BBDB beginners guide?
CC: To Roland Hello Uwe, Uwe Brauer o...@mat.ucm.es writes: Beg your pardon? I am still using 2.35 and hadn't the time to give 3.x a try. The names of the variables are changed, but why. I consider this as a *terrible* design decision. Why loose the compatibility. From bbdb home page it appears the code did not evolve for a long time (Jan 2007). I think Roland wrote bbbd 3.0 with the idea to remove some crufts, enhance the clarity of the code (function's description, etc.) and use more meaningful names. From my point of view he managed to do it well. (I am glad to see the project with a maintainer). Also, I think that only a few variables were changed. Updating my conf was not much of a big deal - I am not an emacs old timer, though. I don't have strong habits yet. ;-) -- Bruno -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: BBDB beginners guide?
Regarding Re: BBDB beginners guide?; Bruno Tavernier tavernier.br...@gmail.com adds: Hi Bruno, CC: To Roland Hello Uwe, First of all I did not mean to attack you, sorry if I have caused that impression. From bbdb home page it appears the code did not evolve for a long time (Jan 2007). That is correct. (Same was true for VM) I think Roland wrote bbbd 3.0 with the idea to remove some crufts, enhance the clarity of the code (function's description, etc.) So far so good, I appreciate that effort and use more meaningful names. This, in my opinion, is a very bad idea. Taste is subjective and once names are chosen they become a convention. To break backward compatibility deliberately has no benefit I can think off. From my point of view he managed to do it well. (I am glad to see the project with a maintainer). So do I. Also, I think that only a few variables were changed. Well in that case defalias should be used for backward compatibility. Updating my conf was not much of a big deal - I am not an emacs old timer, though. I don't have strong habits yet. ;-) Well I am using it for almost 20 years. It is not the habit it is backward compatibility which bothers me. Regards Uwe Brauer -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
