On Sun Apr 13 2014 Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote:
bbdb-separator-alist defines the separator for almost all fields
to be , . Only for AKAs it is ; . I do not know anymore
how this came about. But I find it confusing, and I am thinking
about changing the default to , for all
John Smith; John Smith, Jr; J. Smith, Esquire
I guess we have no shortage in such examples requiring something
like `;' instead of `,'. Besides AKAs / names, we may also have
organization: HAL, Inc.; Smith, Miller Davis; Company 17
Yet worse
mail: sm...@example.com; Smith,
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes:
John Smith; John Smith, Jr; J. Smith, Esquire
I guess we have no shortage in such examples requiring something
like `;' instead of `,'. Besides AKAs / names, we may also have
organization: HAL, Inc.; Smith, Miller Davis; Company 17
Yet worse
On Mon Apr 14 2014 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
Or to store the value as a list of strings,
That's what BBDB does anyway, and that's what bbdb-seperator-alist
is about: how to split the string which the user edits into what
gets actually stored in the database (see split-string).
and make users
