I am thinking about ways to make the formatting of snail mail
addresses more flexible. In my BBDB I have addresses from a few
countries in the world, and each goes with slightly different
formatting styles, in particular for city, zip code and state.
Yet currently BBDB has only two hard-coded
On Wed Feb 2 2011 Johnny wrote:
Well, my recent discovery was that the variable name change
bbdb-popup-target-lines - bbdb-popup-window-size in BBDB 3.x. They seem
to do the same thing (i.e. setting the target number of lines for the
bbdb-popup window). The default value was 5 but is now 0.5.
On 2011-02-02 23:15 +0800, Roland Winkler wrote:
Yet currently BBDB has only two hard-coded functions
bbdb-format-address-default and bbdb-format-address-continental.
I am thinking about replacing this scheme by a generic function
bbdb-format-address that uses some kind of format strings for
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes:
I am thinking about ways to make the formatting of snail mail
addresses more flexible.
This is a good idea; the current BBDB handling seems very
US-centered. For one, I think Postal code should replace the American
term Zip code as default naming, as this
On Wed Feb 2 2011 Johnny wrote:
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes:
Further, I don't understand how to get the bbdb/gnus-show-sender to add
unknown addresses;
[snip]
However, browsing the lisp code, I assume that the following is actually
invoked (?) which seems to simply return
See you BBDB snots, Harald feels the same way.
H == Harald Hanche-Olsen han...@math.ntnu.no writes:
H This is a particular risk that has been bothering me for a long time.
H Not BBDB especially, but just about every GUI has this tendency to pop
H up some sort of dialogue on its own from time to
On 2011-02-03 00:41 +0800, Roland Winkler wrote:
This is still awkward for Chinese addresses. In bbdb2 it was so awkward
to put address in the address field that I have to put them in the notes
field.
This is because we tend to use one line for the address and it is
specified from
On Thu Feb 3 2011 jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
See you BBDB snots, Harald feels the same way.
H == Harald Hanche-Olsen han...@math.ntnu.no writes:
H This is a particular risk that has been bothering me for a long time.
H Not BBDB especially, but just about every GUI has this tendency to pop
On Thu Feb 3 2011 Leo wrote:
It appears to me that the room number could become a second street
part. (The street part of a BBDB address is really just a list of
strings.)
Also, newlines would become part of the format specification. So if
the format specification for chinese addresses
All I know is BBDB should never allow spacebar instead of a genuine y
when asking questions, as that question might be asked when the user is
trying to scroll an article, and doesn't notice he is being asked
something there in the minibuffer.
I don't think I changed that part in
On Wed Feb 2 2011 Johnny wrote:
This is a good idea; the current BBDB handling seems very
US-centered. For one, I think Postal code should replace the American
term Zip code as default naming, as this seems to be the generic
term.
This becomes yet more complicated. I vaguely remember that
On Thu Feb 3 2011 jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
All I know is BBDB should never allow spacebar instead of a genuine y
when asking questions, as that question might be asked when the user is
trying to scroll an article, and doesn't notice he is being asked
something there in the minibuffer.
I
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