Re: Omitting fields from being displayed and enhanced editing

2001-08-13 Thread Ronan Waide
On August 13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: IMHO it is more easier to understand, maintain and think in display layouts, than in fields, but let's hear what you think about it? Looks fine to me... Cheers, Waider. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Yes, it /is/ very personal of me. disclaimer: As I have

Re: Omitting fields from being displayed and enhanced editing

2001-08-07 Thread Nix
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Colin Rafferty spake: Robert Fenk wrote: bbdb-one-line-display-fields (bbdb-elided-display-fields) list of fields which should be displayed in one-line display This is the exact opposite of the -elided- version, and a bad choice. If I add a new field interactively,

Re: Omitting fields from being displayed and enhanced editing

2001-08-07 Thread Robert Fenk
On Monday, August 6 2001 10:15:30, Colin Rafferty wrote: [...] I hate changing names just for the sake of changing names. Well me too, but they are not just changed for the sake of changing names, but also for minor functionality changes and better naming. Your are right,

Re: Omitting fields from being displayed and enhanced editing

2001-08-07 Thread Robert Fenk
On Tuesday, August 7 2001 08:19:53, Thomas E Deweese wrote: [...] There are minor functionality changes, that may or may not warrent a name change, but 'better naming' _is_ just changing names for the sake of changing names. Well, we could argue on this for quite some while. IMHO for the

Re: Omitting fields from being displayed and enhanced editing

2001-08-07 Thread John F. Whitehead
Thomas E Deweese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are minor functionality changes, that may or may not warrent a name change, but 'better naming' _is_ just changing names for the sake of changing names. it depends on why it is better... the question is whom we want to inconvenience more.

Re: Omitting fields from being displayed and enhanced editing

2001-08-06 Thread Robert Fenk
On Sunday, August 5 2001 02:30:59, Ronan Waide wrote: I don't know how much duplication of effort - if any - is involved in having both systems present. A few lines. Apparently my commit has broken the old behavior :/ but I have a fix already handy. What I think needs to be done is for

Re: Omitting fields from being displayed and enhanced editing

2001-08-06 Thread Alex Schroeder
Robert Fenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: bbdb-default-display-mode (bbdb-elided-display) either one-line, multi-line or 'full bbdb-pop-up-default-display-mode (bbdb-pop-up-elided-display) either one-line, multi-line or 'full I don't think the names should end in mode if we are not

Re: Omitting fields from being displayed and enhanced editing

2001-08-06 Thread Colin Rafferty
Robert Fenk wrote: On Sunday, August 5 2001 02:30:59, Ronan Waide wrote: What I think needs to be done is for bbdb-elided-display to go away (or be replaced with some aliasing and a bunch of warnings to say it /will/ go away), and be replaced with a combination of your code and the

Re: Omitting fields from being displayed and enhanced editing

2001-08-06 Thread Robert Fenk
On Monday, August 6 2001 14:44:55, Alex Schroeder wrote: Robert Fenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: bbdb-default-display-mode (bbdb-elided-display) either one-line, multi-line or 'full bbdb-pop-up-default-display-mode (bbdb-pop-up-elided-display) either one-line, multi-line or 'full

Re: Omitting fields from being displayed and enhanced editing

2001-08-06 Thread Ronan Waide
On August 6, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I hate changing names just for the sake of changing names. Yup, agreed, but it appears that the number of people who think of the word 'elided' when trying to figure out optional field display is getting smaller and smaller - I must confess to being

Re: Omitting fields from being displayed and enhanced editing

2001-08-06 Thread Jochen Küpper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Fenk wrote on Mon, 6 Aug 2001 10:58:38 +0200: Robert bbdb-default-display-mode (bbdb-elided-display) Robert either one-line, multi-line or 'full Robert bbdb-pop-up-default-display-mode (bbdb-pop-up-elided-display) Robert either one-line,

Re: Omitting fields from being displayed and enhanced editing

2001-08-04 Thread Nix
On Fri, 03 Aug 2001, David S. Goldberg gibbered: DG I want a full listing, in multiple lines, minus a couple fields. DG Robert's patch does this. bbdb-elided-display does not. Yes, it does... Thanks! Is that new in the 2.3* versions? I don't recall that being possible

Re: Omitting fields from being displayed and enhanced editing

2001-08-04 Thread Robert Fenk
On Friday, August 3 2001 10:55:11, Thomas E Deweese wrote: [...] Yes, it does... But not as I thought it should be. I want elided display by default and when I switch to full display I do not want to see some fields. Neither way of setting bbdb-elided-display provides this. whne setting it

Re: Omitting fields from being displayed and enhanced editing

2001-08-04 Thread Robert Fenk
On Friday, August 3 2001 21:41:12, Ronan Waide wrote: On August 3, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: How is this different from `bbdb-elided-display'? DG I want a full listing, in multiple lines, minus a couple fields. DG Robert's patch does this. bbdb-elided-display does not. Yes,

Re: Omitting fields from being displayed and enhanced editing

2001-08-04 Thread Ronan Waide
On August 4, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It is not exactly the same feature AFAIS, see the other mail I sent. bbdb-elided-display affects the default display mode: whether it is one line or a listing. I would propose to remove the omitting of fields from bbdb-elided-display, but that breaks

Re: Omitting fields from being displayed and enhanced editing

2001-08-03 Thread Thomas E Deweese
DG == David S Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DG I want a full listing, in multiple lines, minus a couple fields. DG Robert's patch does this. bbdb-elided-display does not. Yes, it does... DG [...] DG Thanks! Is that new in the 2.3* versions? I don't think so, but it's hard to

Re: Omitting fields from being displayed and enhanced editing

2001-08-03 Thread David S. Goldberg
DG I want a full listing, in multiple lines, minus a couple fields. DG Robert's patch does this. bbdb-elided-display does not. Yes, it does... [...] Thanks! Is that new in the 2.3* versions? I don't recall that being possible previously. The only question then would be is there an

Re: Omitting fields from being displayed and enhanced editing

2001-08-01 Thread Robert Fenk
On , July 31 2001 12:43:18, Doug Alcorn wrote: Robert Fenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - omitting fields of records by listing them in the variable `bbdb-display-omit-fields', e.g. pilot-id! Excellent! Thanks for jumping on this so fast! The code was there for about 2 month, but I

Omitting fields from being displayed and enhanced editing

2001-07-31 Thread Robert Fenk
Hi, I have just committed some code which provides the following enhancements: - omitting fields of records by listing them in the variable `bbdb-display-omit-fields', e.g. pilot-id! - changing the default order of fields in full display by setting `bbdb-display-fields-order' - editing of a

Re: Omitting fields from being displayed and enhanced editing

2001-07-31 Thread Doug Alcorn
Robert Fenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - omitting fields of records by listing them in the variable `bbdb-display-omit-fields', e.g. pilot-id! Excellent! Thanks for jumping on this so fast! One thing I noticed: there doesn't seem to be a good way to toggle between omiting the omitted