On Fri Sep 7 2012 Roland Winkler wrote:
> > Everytime I read one of these messages, BBDB asks me if I'd like
> > to change the name of "some-real-person" to "The Bug Tracking System"
> > or add "some-real-person" to "some-other-real-person".
>
> You are struggling with similar problems... I extended the allowed
> values for bbdb-accept-name-mismatch to include regexps and
> functions. This should hopefully solve most problems of that kind.
> See the updated doc string of bbdb-accept-name-mismatch.
Just after I pushed this patch, I wanted to do something similar
with mail addresses. There was the user variable bbdb-add-mails for
this. But the details of how things could be customized were rather
different. Also, there were the user variables
bbdb-use-alternate-names and bbdb-new-mails-always-primary, again
serving for related problems, but each of them using its own scheme.
With the patch below, I tried to clean up these things.
Unfortunately, this resulted in a few more backward
incompatibilities:
bbdb-accept-name-mismatch -> bbdb-add-name
bbdb-use-alternate-names -> bbdb-add-aka
bbdb-new-mails-always-primary -> bbdb-new-mails-primary
Yet the new scheme with the user variables bbdb-add-name,
bbdb-add-aka, bbdb-add-mails, and bbdb-new-mails-primary should be
both much more transparent and more powerful. See the docstring of
these variables.
2012-09-09 Roland Winkler <wink...@gnu.org>
Provide unified scheme for customizing how BBDB analyzes messages.
* lisp/bbdb.el (bbdb-add-name): Renamed from
bbdb-accept-name-mismatch.
(bbdb-add-aka): Renamed from bbdb-use-alternate-names.
(bbdb-new-mails-primary): Renamed from
bbdb-new-mails-always-primary.
(bbdb-add-name, bbdb-add-aka, bbdb-add-mails)
(bbdb-new-mails-primary): Unify set of allowed values.
(bbdb-add-job, bbdb-eval-spec): New functions.
(bbdb-mode): Update docstring.
* lisp/bbdb-com.el (bbdb-merge-records): Use bbdb-add-aka.
* lisp/bbdb-mua.el (bbdb-annotate-message): Use bbdb-add-name,
bbdb-add-aka, bbdb-add-mails, and bbdb-new-mails-primary.
BBDB is available at
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/bbdb/
To check it out, use
git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/bbdb.git
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