Re: not noticing entries

2011-04-13 Thread Sam Steingold
* Sam Steingold f...@tah.bet [2011-04-12 10:45:54 -0400]: with 2.36 devo I noticed some very weird behavior: when I hit : a new bbdb record is created _without_ any net field. I see it now all the time with all new records. net field is not filled. -- Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/)

Re: [BBDB] Changelog 2010-04-10

2011-04-13 Thread Roland Winkler
On Mon Apr 11 2011 Sam Steingold wrote: you might consider putting the todo list into the git repo It'll come soon. On a similar note, I tried the new bbdb (from git) today and it does not look ready for prime time yet. Specifically, in gnus, when the address is marked with * (i.e., bbdb

Re: not noticing entries

2011-04-13 Thread Roland Winkler
On Tue Apr 12 2011 Sam Steingold wrote: with 2.36 devo I noticed some very weird behavior: in gnus, when I see a message from a known user (with the real name in the message being an AKA), it is _not_ marked with * and bbdb window is _not_ shown, and when I hit : a new bbdb record is created

Re: [BBDB] Changelog 2010-04-10

2011-04-13 Thread Roland Winkler
On Mon Apr 11 2011 Sam Steingold wrote: here is an addition: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bbdb.user:1689 From: Sam Steingold s...@gnu.org Subject: Make John an alternate for John Doe? (y or n) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bbdb.user Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:37:35 -0400 (5 years, 38

Re: [BBDB] Changelog 2010-04-10

2011-04-13 Thread Sam Steingold
* Roland Winkler jvax...@tah.bet [2011-04-13 10:00:04 -0500]: On Mon Apr 11 2011 Sam Steingold wrote: here is an addition: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bbdb.user:1689 From: Sam Steingold s...@gnu.org Subject: Make John an alternate for John Doe? (y or n) Newsgroups:

Re: not noticing entries

2011-04-13 Thread Sam Steingold
* Roland Winkler jvax...@tah.bet [2011-04-13 09:59:40 -0500]: Is 2.36 devo on git somewhere (I cannot find it right now). this is cvs head. -- Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) on CentOS release 5.5 (Final) X 11.0.60900031 http://memri.org http://camera.org http://pmw.org.il

Re: [BBDB] Changelog 2010-04-10

2011-04-13 Thread Sam Steingold
* Roland Winkler jvax...@tah.bet [2011-04-13 09:54:15 -0500]: On a similar note, I tried the new bbdb (from git) today and it does not look ready for prime time yet. Specifically, in gnus, when the address is marked with * (i.e., bbdb knows about it), *bbdb* buffer is not displayed; and when

bbdb-mode-map should inherit from special-mode-map

2011-04-13 Thread Sam Steingold
2011-04-13 Sam Steingold s...@gnu.org * bbdb.el (bbdb-mode-map): inherit from `special-mode-map' (bbdb-mode): set `revert-buffer-function' diff --git a/lisp/bbdb.el b/lisp/bbdb.el index 74f3cfc..ad7e966 100644 --- a/lisp/bbdb.el +++ b/lisp/bbdb.el @@ -1366,7 +1366,9 @@ APPEND

Re: bbdb-mode-map should inherit from special-mode-map

2011-04-13 Thread Sam Steingold
* Stefan Monnier zbaa...@veb.hzbagerny.pn [2011-04-13 12:32:42 -0300]: + (when (boundp 'revert-buffer-function) +(setq revert-buffer-function 'bbdb-revert-buffer)) I recommend to use (set (make-local-variable foo) bar) when setting a buffer-local variable, even if you know that the

Re: bbdb-mode-map should inherit from special-mode-map

2011-04-13 Thread Roland Winkler
On Wed Apr 13 2011 Sam Steingold wrote: * Stefan Monnier zbaa...@veb.hzbagerny.pn [2011-04-13 12:32:42 -0300]: + (when (boundp 'revert-buffer-function) +(setq revert-buffer-function 'bbdb-revert-buffer)) I recommend to use (set (make-local-variable foo) bar) when setting a

Re: bbdb-mode-map should inherit from special-mode-map

2011-04-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
+ (when (boundp 'revert-buffer-function) +(setq revert-buffer-function 'bbdb-revert-buffer)) I recommend to use (set (make-local-variable foo) bar) when setting a buffer-local variable, even if you know that the variable is automatically buffer-local. One of the benefits is that you

Re: not noticing entries

2011-04-13 Thread Barak A. Pearlmutter
with 2.36 devo (AKA the head of the sourceforge CVS repo) I noticed some very weird behavior: in gnus, when I see a message from a known user (with the real name in the message being an AKA), it is _not_ marked with * and bbdb window is _not_ shown, and when I hit : a new bbdb record is

Re: not noticing entries

2011-04-13 Thread Roland Winkler
On Wed Apr 13 2011 Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: There have been a bunch of hacks in git for the debian bbdb 2.x package, including a bunch of bug fixes. Can you check if the problem still appears there? git clone git://github.com/barak/BBDB.git will give you the tip of that development

Re: bbdb-mode-map should inherit from special-mode-map

2011-04-13 Thread Sam Steingold
* Roland Winkler jvax...@tah.bet [2011-04-13 11:05:30 -0500]: Just curious: which dialect of emacs do you have in mind here? your predecessor removed my cvs write permissions because he thought I was not careful enough with support of ancient emacsen. this is the only reason for the checks. if

Re: bbdb-mode-map should inherit from special-mode-map

2011-04-13 Thread Sam Steingold
* Stefan Monnier zbaa...@veb.hzbagerny.pn [2011-04-13 13:10:15 -0300]: As for whether you need `boundp' to set a variable, I think that's not the case: if your Emacs doesn't obey this variable, setting it shouldn't do any harm (it'll just be ignored). of course. I just don't want to create a

Re: bbdb-mode-map should inherit from special-mode-map

2011-04-13 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:05:30 -0500 Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org wrote: RW I do not want to exclude any other dialects of emacs here. But they RW would most likely require a more systematic overhaul of all code. RW In that sense, I am a bit hesitant to add support for something that RW is not

Re: bbdb-mode-map should inherit from special-mode-map

2011-04-13 Thread Roland Winkler
On Wed Apr 13 2011 Ted Zlatanov wrote: It should be possible to support at least Emacs 23.x and XEmacs. Gnus does it so we can look there for potential problems and solutions. You could ask David Engster d...@randomsample.de, who's setting up a Gnus buildbot, to do the same for BBDB.