improved vCard export

2005-03-02 Thread Alex Schroeder
I think I didn't post it on this mailing list... http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/BbdbExporters For my Apple Addressbook I added some UTF-16 magic and a few small fixes to bbdb-vcard-export.el http://www.emacswiki.org/elisp/bbdb-vcard-export.el Does anybody know the original author? Does

Re: improved vCard export

2005-03-02 Thread Alex Schroeder
Ronan Waide schrieb: On March 1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I think I didn't post it on this mailing list... http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/BbdbExporters For my Apple Addressbook I added some UTF-16 magic and a few small fixes to bbdb-vcard-export.el

Re: if not t and not nil

2004-11-06 Thread Alex Schroeder
Dan Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just curious, reading the docstring of bbdb-offer-save: If t, If nil If not t and not nil , wouldn't it be safer, in the first place, but not now, to use an exact value for the last, not a wildcard? Yes I think you are right. Alex. --

Re: export to .txt, .html

2004-11-06 Thread Alex Schroeder
Dan Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: P.S. ELIDEP is not explained here: bbdb is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `bbdb-com'. (bbdb STRING ELIDEP) Display all entries in the BBDB matching the regexp STRING in either the name(s), company, network address, or

Re: output format

2004-11-06 Thread Alex Schroeder
Jochen Kpper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When you use C-u M-x bbdb RET dan RET you will get the matching entries in elided form -- one line per entry. It works by temporarily switching bbdb-display-layout, but I must confess I didn't quite understand

Re: export to .txt, .html

2004-11-05 Thread Alex Schroeder
Dan Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You might want to document the proper way. I just do M-x bbdb and search for . That gives me all the records in a buffer. C-x h selects the buffer, M-w copies it, and then I can yank it elsewhere. I also added two more entries to

Re: bbdb-insert-new-field should check first, Info

2004-10-08 Thread Alex Schroeder
Dan Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: bbdb-insert-new-field: there already are notes! Well you could have told me earlier. Indeed. Never noticed until now. Also there is no bug reporting item in that index. That's true. I'll add something. The section Known Bugs doesn't tell us

Re: bbdb-insert-new-field should check first, Info

2004-10-08 Thread Alex Schroeder
What do you think of the following patch? *** bbdb.texinfo06 Aug 2003 11:06:01 +0200 1.51 --- bbdb.texinfo09 Oct 2004 00:27:01 +0200 *** *** 1046,1051 --- 1046,1052 @ref{Gnus Prep}. For usage details, see @ref{Gnus Features}. The field used

Re: bbdb-insert-new-field should check first, Info

2004-10-08 Thread Alex Schroeder
Grr. Forgot the @cindex Bug Reports... Alex. *** bbdb.texinfo06 Aug 2003 11:06:01 +0200 1.51 --- bbdb.texinfo09 Oct 2004 00:28:20 +0200 *** *** 1046,1051 --- 1046,1052 @ref{Gnus Prep}. For usage details, see @ref{Gnus Features}. The field

Re: BBDB and coding systems

2004-09-03 Thread Alex Schroeder
Graham Gough [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tried this, it saved, then the next time the file needed saving I and got the message These default coding systems were tried: iso-2022-7bit-unix iso-latin-1 However, none of them safely encodes the target text. Is there any way

Re: coding issues

2004-09-01 Thread Alex Schroeder
Jochen Kpper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The message contained the header , | Organization: SFB 378, Computerlinguistik, Universitt des Saarlandes ` which was automatically added to the corresponding bbdb-entry as , | =?iso-8859-1?q?SFB_378,_Computerlinguistik,_Universit=E4t?=

Re: bbdb: mule and no mule xemacs: problems

2004-08-16 Thread Alex Schroeder
Ronan Waide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Recently I switched from xemacs 21.4.15 no mule to the mule version and back, to my horror the entry Rosa Mara Pardo San Gil was changed to Rosa Mar,Am(Ba Pardo San Gil How can I convert this back again. Maybe this is just in iso-2022-7-bit or

FOAF

2004-04-29 Thread Alex Schroeder
I've been using the following code with a patched xml.el to extract people from my BBDB into a FOAF fragment. The code will be placed on the Emacs Wiki, so check there for future versions. (require 'xml) (defun bbdb-foaf (optional all) Print a list of people you know for inclusion in a FOAF

Re: [PB]: bbdb-file encoding

2004-04-13 Thread Alex Schroeder
Dave Love [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd just like to see both code and comment fixed such that I can understand it a few months from now. Can you suggest a change? Sorry, you'll have to explain why either needs fixing. (I can still understand them, for what it's worth.) My problem was

Re: [PB]: bbdb-file encoding

2004-04-07 Thread Alex Schroeder
Dave Love [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Xavier Maillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So what is the *best* or the *recommended* coding system to use for BBDB knowing that my contacts are world wide. The one that's set in recent versions (as far as I know), i.e. `iso-2022-7bit', at least if you

Re: [PB]: bbdb-file encoding

2004-02-28 Thread Alex Schroeder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeffery B. Rancier) writes: Alex Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My .bbdb file starts with the following line: ;; -*-coding: iso-2022-7bit;-*- Whereas bbdb-file-coding-system's value is utf-8-emacs. It works anyhow. :) Well, in addition to that I (prefer-coding

Re: [PB]: bbdb-file encoding

2004-02-27 Thread Alex Schroeder
My .bbdb file starts with the following line: ;; -*-coding: iso-2022-7bit;-*- Whereas bbdb-file-coding-system's value is utf-8-emacs. It works anyhow. :) Alex. -- .O. http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/ ..O Schroeder's fourth law: OOO None of your friends and coworkers share your taste in

Re: BBDB crashes on search

2003-12-08 Thread Alex Schroeder
Michael Below [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Then it says something like searching and then frobnicating. Right after frobnicating, bbdb crashes, and emacs closes. If I call it from an xterm, I get the message Speicherzugriffsfehler emacs (memory access error emacs) printed into the xterm window.

Re: mail alias for multiple recipients

2003-11-14 Thread Alex Schroeder
Jochen Kpper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I didn't see a patch:( I will try again, then. :) It adds two index entries and an unnumbered subsection. Alex. *** bbdb.texinfo.~1.51.~Wed Aug 6 11:06:01 2003 --- bbdb.texinfoThu Nov 13 03:35:04 2003 *** *** 1046,1051

Re: mail alias for multiple recipients

2003-11-12 Thread Alex Schroeder
Jochen Kpper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex I wonder where this is documented, though. ,[ (info (bbdb)Mail Sending Interfaces) ] |If more than one person has the same mail-alias, then that alias | expands to the addresses of all of those people; in this way you can | maintain

Re: mail alias for multiple recipients

2003-11-08 Thread Alex Schroeder
Sarir Khamsi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to create a mail alias for multiple recipients, that is, a single mail alias would be a simple mailing list. I have been unable to figure out how to do this with BBDB (2.34) or Gnus (5.10.3). Any suggestions? Is the only way to do it with my

Re: Weballized address book

2003-09-01 Thread Alex Schroeder
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some way of starting emacs and accessing all the functionality of bbdb but thru a web intface. You would have to write it yourself. There is httpd.el, however, which allows Emacs to act as a web-server, so a big chunk of work has already been done.

Re: How do I fix BBDB corruption?

2003-08-15 Thread Alex Schroeder
Eric Moncrieff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't have any other means of updating the BBDB, and I've never seen any trouble since I upgraded to 2.34...Until last week. I use desktop.el, and so sometimes the first buffer that comes up when I start an Emacs session is the .bbdb file, and I

Re: require subscription to post - an offer to help

2003-03-30 Thread Alex Schroeder
Scott Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In case it's among the filtered messages, I started this thread [1] by volunteering to moderate the list - in Mailman 2.0 (which sourceforge is using) you can make someone a 'moderator', which gives them the ability to approve and deny postings and

spam

2003-02-26 Thread Alex Schroeder
We've had the discussion before -- the mailing list works fine for me. I just filter the crap. I use statistical spam filtering for Gnus, but I also have a very simple splitting rule that does away with all Korean mails. Try it. It works. :) Alex.

Re: X-Face and Face headers for Emacs...

2003-02-20 Thread Alex Schroeder
I added Steven's code and mine to http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?BbdbFaces Alex. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SlickEdit Inc. Develop an edge. The most comprehensive and flexible code editor you can use. Code faster. C/C++,

Re: Can't use the /texinfo/bbdb.info file.

2003-02-10 Thread Alex Schroeder
I don't see an error description in your mail -- it must have gotten lost. Can you send it again? Alex. --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com

X-Face and Face headers for Emacs...

2003-02-03 Thread Alex Schroeder
Here is what I use in order to store both X-Face and Face headers, and display them. Works for me. :) Alex. (add-hook 'bbdb-list-hook 'my-bbdb-display-xface) (defun my-bbdb-display-xface () Search for face properties and display the faces. (when (or (gnus-image-type-available-p 'xface)

Re: documentation fix

2003-01-31 Thread Alex Schroeder
David S Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: bbdb-elide-record is no more... bbdb-toggle-records-display-layout is, I'm pretty sure, the right thing. Thanks. I applied your patch. Alex. --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge

Re: Sorting entries

2003-01-29 Thread Alex Schroeder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Gudrian) writes: Is there a built-in function or do I have to open the ~/.bbdb-file and have it sorted using emacs' functions? Try M-: (bbdb-resort-database) RET. Perhaps this function should be interactive? Or whatever syncing operation you are using should take

Re: Archive faces in records?

2003-01-03 Thread Alex Schroeder
Jack Twilley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here is the relevant part of my configuration: bbdb-auto-notes-alist '((Organi[sz]ation (.* company \\)) (Newsgroups (.* newsgroups \\)) (X-Face (.+ face 0 'replace))) I know that 'replace will remove

Re: bbdb-print with weird coding systems

2002-12-23 Thread Alex Schroeder
Ronan Waide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm still not 100% clear on the right way to solve the coding-sytems problem. Ideally, I'd like the BBDB file to be coding-systems agnostic and still provide reasonable mapping back into the real world. This sort of hints that it should store everything

Re: bbdb-print with weird coding systems

2002-12-23 Thread Alex Schroeder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Großjohann) writes: Really? How is this the case? Or more to the point, what's the set of characters in Emacs that can't be represented in Unicode? In Emacs, Latin-1 ä and Latin-2 ä are two distinct characters. I think in Unicode there is only one ä. There was much

Re: bbdb-print with weird coding systems

2002-12-23 Thread Alex Schroeder
Alex Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, this time I have a patch. Committed. :) Now for the documentation... Alex. --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf

bbdb-print with weird coding systems

2002-12-21 Thread Alex Schroeder
I have a BBDB with data in German and Japanese, so at the beginning of my .bbdb I have the magic cookie ;; -*-coding: iso-2022-7bit;-*- bbdb-file-coding-system is set to 'iso-2022-7bit, and I have the following in my .emacs: (add-to-list 'file-coding-system-alist (cons \\.bbdb\\'

Re: bbdb-print with weird coding systems

2002-12-21 Thread Alex Schroeder
Coded my own solution and wrote it all up: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?BbdbMulePrinting Alex. --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Order your Holiday Geek Presents Now! Green Lasers, Hip Geek T-Shirts, Remote Control Tanks,

Re: support for several xfaces

2002-10-24 Thread Alex Schroeder
Andreas Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (setq faces (match-string 1)) (replace-match t t nil 1) (dolist (data (split-string faces , )) You could use (get 'face 'field-separator) instead of this. Where is this information stored

Re: support for several xfaces

2002-10-19 Thread Alex Schroeder
Colin Rafferty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Micha Wiedenmann wrote: bbdb automatically adds the x-face to the bbdb-records, but I don't know how to add several xfaces to the face-field. A new xface is appended via , this destroys both, the old and the new x-faces. (put 'face

Re: bbdb: cannot acces the name field this way

2002-10-09 Thread Alex Schroeder
Micha Wiedenmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you try to create a new field: name with `C-o name REG y Alex RET' `bbdb-insert-new-field' (`C-o') calls `bbdb-prompt-for-new-field-value' ,[ bbdb-com.el ] | (defun bbdb-prompt-for-new-field-value (name) | (cond ((eq name 'net) ...) |

Re: newbie question

2002-09-23 Thread Alex Schroeder
Mario Mommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe I misunderstood something, but... bbdb's usual modus operandi is that it starts gathering information, like when I'm reading e-mail it saves the addresses, etc. Am I right on this? No, the usual modus operandi is just an address book. To add the

Re: bbdb: cannot acces the name field this way

2002-08-26 Thread Alex Schroeder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | bbdb: cannot acces the name field this way This can only be prevented if I kill the .bbdb-buffer. Then the immediate following search is succesful and all following attempts to search fail again. I have tracked this down to `;;; user-fields: (name ...)' in my

Re: BBDB and gnus nnmail/nnimap split-fancy

2002-08-12 Thread Alex Schroeder
Alexander Kotelnikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (defun bbdb-split () We want people, who are in bbdb not to be splitted to spam What is wrong here? Hehe, you are overwriting an existing function! Here is the doc of the original: bbdb-split is a Lisp function in `bbdb'. (bbdb-split STRING

Re: spam

2002-06-03 Thread Alex Schroeder
I am not getting that much spam in my BBDB folders. I see you are using VM, not Gnus, so I cannot help you with your filtering, but one of the most effective filters I ever used is the one that goes by weird coding sets. At the moment this rule seems to catch most of my mailing list spam:

Re: The followup will show the bug.

2002-05-28 Thread Alex Schroeder
David Kågedal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Niklas Morberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: name mismatch: Kai Großjohann changed to Kai Großjohann (modify-coding-system-alist 'file (regexp-quote (expand-file-name bbdb-file)) 'iso-8859-1) I think your .bbdb is encoded in

Re: bbdb-file-coding-system: what's a safe migration setting?

2002-05-28 Thread Alex Schroeder
Sergei Pokrovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, I've remained with the raw encoding, but these are incompatible between the Emacsen (20/21). This is why I avoid emacs-21: it spoils .bbdb so badly that opening a gnus article crashes emacs-20.7 (which I still prefer for some reasons). I think

Re: bbdb-file-coding-system: what's a safe migration setting?

2002-05-28 Thread Alex Schroeder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Großjohann) writes: So I would like to find a way that BBDB loads the file in the old coding system (whatever it was, probably Latin-1 because I have (set-language-environment Latin-1) in the init files), and then saves it in a better encoding (utf-8? emacs-mule?).

Re: Gnus splitting based on bbdb?

2002-04-25 Thread Alex Schroeder
Galen Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to enable splitting of mail based on bbdb? http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SplitMailUsingBbdb Can this be intermixed with nnmail-split-methods? Yes, see the Even More Advanced section. Alex. --

Re: Problems with names containing non-english characters

2002-02-05 Thread Alex Schroeder
Niklas Morberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Be especially careful to delete everything containing the infamous \201 character. I had a bunch of those as well -- what are they about? These problems and all that are related to people who used Emacs 20.1 to 20.3, I think, because at that time

Re: display entries that dont match a pattern

2002-01-21 Thread Alex Schroeder
Alex Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is, however, no way to search for people without phone numbers, or all people without an address matching gnu. Do you think this is important? Ok, so I was bored. Now you can also search for stuff

bbdb display

2002-01-18 Thread Alex Schroeder
Ronan Waide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Much display handling rewriting, courtesy of Alex Schroeder and Robert Fenk. It's so good, I've not even figured it out myself yet. Heh. I can't remember contributing any towards it, I assume you meant somebody else. I have something to discuss

Re: build error

2002-01-15 Thread Alex Schroeder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Großjohann) writes: | ELISP (defvar xyzzy) | xyzzy | ELISP (boundp 'xyzzy) | nil Heh, learn a new thing every day. :) Alex. -- http://www.emacswiki.org/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Error while trying to edit/delete or add a field on a record.

2002-01-14 Thread Alex Schroeder
Benjamin Rutt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe people who want the luxury of running BBDB with multiple emacsen can live with running BBDB uncompiled? Or, they could maintain multiple installation dirs and compile for multiple emacsen. If you run Debian, I think this is what happens,

Re: build error

2002-01-14 Thread Alex Schroeder
Ronan Waide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On January 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I am not sure, but it seems to me that autoloads are more desireable, 'cause then we defer the possible need/availability check to runtime. Yep, except the compiler warnings I was attempting to hush up are for

Emacs/XEmacs workarounds

2002-01-13 Thread Alex Schroeder
Chris Beggy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Alex Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lots of packages define missing functions in order to run on Emacs and XEmacs. Other packages test wethere critical functions are bound or not, and then assume they are on Emacs or XEmacs. :( I've had

Re: Error while trying to edit/delete or add a field on a record.

2002-01-12 Thread Alex Schroeder
Galen Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I found the issue. table.el has caused me a few headaches now. For some reason, it finds its way into the middle of compilations and then the resultant compiled code has issues. I ran the bbdb uncompiled (whew, is it slow) and I was able to perform the

Re: record unhas network addresses

2002-01-12 Thread Alex Schroeder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam C. Finnefrock) writes: Is it a crime to have a BBDB entry without a net field? :) Seriously, should I put in bogus e-mail addresses for these records? No, I have dozens of entries without e-mail addresses in them. But I don't send them mail, either. When I try, I

Re: bbdb + mew

2001-12-27 Thread Alex Schroeder
(Chris Beggy ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm currently *just* working on the version to work with 2.3x, the CVS version. That's the way to go! :) Alex. -- http://www.emacswiki.org/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: URL naming mode?

2001-11-28 Thread Alex Schroeder
Miroslav Fikar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have tried your function and it worked just fine. However, I have not been able to mail or post message since then. And if I commented the code, I can mail again. Any clue? (gnus told me something as : no methods specified - I do not remember

Re: URL naming mode?

2001-11-28 Thread Alex Schroeder
Galen Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This makes urls clickable which is something I was looking for. Thanks alot for that. Unless I'm missing something, I still would like to be able to give a long url a short name and have that show up as clickable. Instead of seeing a clickable

Re: URL naming mode?

2001-11-26 Thread Alex Schroeder
Galen Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there anyway to turn on the following functionality? When I enter something in some notes type field, the fact that I typed a url could be parsed and then BBDB could ask me if I would like to name that URL. Then, it could display that clickable name

Re: Support for multiple display layouts

2001-09-03 Thread Alex Schroeder
Here are some alternatives for a bbdb-display-layout-alist customization widgets. I prefer the last one myself. I stopped fiddling with it before implementing the availability restriction of properties depending on layout type. :) Alex. (defcustom bbdb-display-layout-alist '((one-line

Re: Support for multiple display layouts

2001-09-03 Thread Alex Schroeder
Robert Fenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have just committed a rewritten version of the bbdb-format-record-* functions. I am really starting to like this! One question: The default value here contains phones instead of phone -- does that work? My head is spinning while looking at all the

Re: posting-style depending on bbdb info

2001-09-02 Thread Alex Schroeder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Großjohann) writes: Ronan Waide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not quite this, but there's a VM-bolt-on package called personality crisis which does this sort of thing. It may be adaptable, or even already adapted, for use with Gnus. I vaguely recall a name called

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: hiding fields from display

2001-07-30 Thread Alex Schroeder
Doug Alcorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any way to have an alist of fields to display or fields to ignore? Maybe something with the elided display? How does all that work? Here's an example from my .emacs: (setq bbdb-print-elide '(tex-name aka mail-alias creation-date timestamp)

Re: bbdb-rfc822-addresses

2001-07-11 Thread Alex Schroeder
Ronan Waide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IIRC, `ß' becomes `ss' when you change it's case. So do I take it then that the conversion of `ß' becomes `ss' is the Right Thing, or what? I don't think that is right. Afterall, we're talking about groß vs. GROSS -- and certainly the mails are

Re: Install, TeX

2001-07-03 Thread Alex Schroeder
Mark Mynsted [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My question is what is the TeX search path? I have many TeX tools, etc installed, but do not know what this path is. Where should these bbdb TeX files be located? I have the following in my .bashrc: export TEXINPUTS=.:~/.TeX: And this is what I have

char-int bug

2001-06-15 Thread Alex Schroeder
bbdb-com.el has the following: ;; GNU vs XEmacs again. GAH. (or (fboundp 'char-int) (defmacro char-int( c ) (list 'string-to-char c))) ;; ick. htmlize.el has the following: (if (fboundp 'char-int) (defalias 'htmlize-char-int 'char-int) (defalias 'htmlize-char-int 'identity))

Re: converting the DB

2001-06-12 Thread Alex Schroeder
Enrico Sirola [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BBDB version 2.00.06 doesn't understand file format version 6. You must have had a newer version of BBDB installed and now you reverted back to 2.00.06 (which uses file format version 3 or 4). The newer version of BBDB you had before created a .bbdb

Re: cvs ci 'bbdb/lisp bbdb-com.el,1.110,1.111'

2001-06-11 Thread Alex Schroeder
Ronan Waide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ideally the address editing function should return a true or false value (for valid/invalid data) and the calling code should handle that appropriately - by which I mean if you're editing an address, it remains unchanged, and if you're adding an address,

Re: cvs ci 'bbdb/lisp bbdb-com.el,1.110,1.111'

2001-06-10 Thread Alex Schroeder
Waider [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (bbdb-address-edit-default): If no data is entered for the address, enter a spurious country name. This is a temporary hack to get around a problem in address display when the address has no data. Hi Waider, What is the problem, exactly? Seeing this I

Re: cvs ci 'bbdb/lisp bbdb-com.el,1.110,1.111'

2001-06-10 Thread Alex Schroeder
Alex Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the problem, exactly? Seeing this I am not sure wether I should upgrade. I have many people in my .bbdb without addresses (and I have never noticed any significant bugs in address display). Curious minds want to know. :) Ah... sorry

Re: Cannot extract an address component...

2001-03-28 Thread Alex Schroeder
Robert Fenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My guess: One of the headers (From,To,Reply-To), probably the Reply-To header is not extracted correctly, as the closing "" seems to be missing. Do a "M-: (mail-fetch-field "Reply-To") RET" Does it return the complete header content? Remove this

Re: Gnus completion wishes

2001-03-21 Thread Alex Schroeder
ShengHuo ZHU [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On a related note, Gnus related: I often resend messages (S D r from the summary buffer). How can I use the force? (require 'message) (define-key message-minibuffer-local-map [(tab)] 'bbdb-complete-name

Re: Minor ZIP code nits in 2.2

2001-03-19 Thread Alex Schroeder
Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. If you try to enter a zip code (maybe only a purely numeric zip?) with a hyphen, BBDB insists that it be US ZIP+4. But I have an international address that includes a hyphenated zip that doesn't match ZIP+4. Take a look at bbdb-legal-zip-codes. I'm

Re: Gnus completion wishes

2001-03-19 Thread Alex Schroeder
Patrick Campbell-Preston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You know your variable/function names are getting too long when they don't need *any* explanatory documentation... LOL! On a related note, Gnus related: I often resend messages (S D r from the summary buffer). How can I use the force? I

Re: where is the configure script?

2001-02-25 Thread Alex Schroeder
Ronan Waide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm a mean and nasty militant CVS freak who thinks that generated files shouldn't be in CVS[1], and people working from CVS should have developer tools. Ahh... Mea culpa. Enlighten me, though: How do I generate it? All I ever compile myself is Emacs,

Re: bbdb-autoload.el

2001-02-25 Thread Alex Schroeder
Ronan Waide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: regenerate bbdb-autoloads.el recently because of changes in CVS. Tidy! I may keep this for the mythical FAQ also. I just checked the INSTALL file -- bbdb-autoloads.el is not mentioned at all. If you read the installation instructions for Emacs without

Re: bbdb-autoload.el

2001-02-25 Thread Alex Schroeder
I just checked the INSTALL file -- bbdb-autoloads.el is not mentioned at all. If you read the installation instructions for Emacs without make, it'll fail. Maybe I'll take a look at that one... :) Then again, maybe not. :) There is no need to recreate bbdb-autoloads.el for tar ball

Re: xemacs and autoloads

2001-02-17 Thread Alex Schroeder
Ronan Waide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yah; it's the gratuituous differences that annoy me. Like overlays vs. extents, for example, and the completely incompatible menuing systems. Yaaahrg! I've written layers to handle both two or three times and I'm getting s tired! But back to this

Re: texinfo patch

2001-02-13 Thread Alex Schroeder
When I updated my CVS today, I missed the following patch: +2001-02-06 Alex Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + * texinfo/bbdb.texinfo (Customization Parameters): Documented + bbdb-check-zip-codes-p, bbdb-address-formatting-alist, and + bbdb-continental-zip-regexp

Re: Zip code bug?

2001-02-12 Thread Alex Schroeder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Grojohann) writes: On 11 Feb 2001, Alex Schroeder wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Grojohann) writes: It's not quite clear to me how to recognize those. But BBDB should provide support for it. I think. Well, if there is any need, somebody will write it up

Re: problem when adding new net addresses noticed in read news..

2001-02-08 Thread Alex Schroeder
Conrad Sauerwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've included a patch to explain. Not completely bleeding edge cvs, as you can see. I'm sure someone can fix this in a more elegant way. Ah... Sorry for reporting a reported bug... :) Alex. -- http://www.geocities.com/kensanata/emacs.html "Use

bbdb-annotate-message-sender bug?

2001-02-08 Thread Alex Schroeder
I have a CVS version of BBDB about 1 day old, using GNU Emacs 20.7 and Gnus 5.8.8 from CVS about 1 day old. I get mail from somebody with a new mail address. I hit `:' and surely enough, I get asked: Add address X to Y? (y or n) When I answer `n' I get asked, wether I want to create a new

bbdb-add-or-remove-mail-alias

2001-02-08 Thread Alex Schroeder
I just discovered the wonders of bbdb-add-or-remove-mail-alias -- didn't even know it existed. I guess the reason I missed it was that it was not in the most obvious place... How about the following patch, then? (I know that bbdb-add-or-remove-mail-alias is listed further down in the BBDB mode

Re: Zip code bug?

2001-02-07 Thread Alex Schroeder
Mats Lfdahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: May I suggest a change in the regular expression that determines whether a zip code is US or continental? You are right of course; in Switzerland and Portugal four digits are used, and in Germany and France five digits are used (those are the countries I

Re: Zip code bug?

2001-02-06 Thread Alex Schroeder
: /cvsroot/bbdb/bbdb/ChangeLog,v retrieving revision 2.68 diff -u -r2.68 ChangeLog --- ChangeLog 2001/02/05 11:39:06 2.68 +++ ChangeLog 2001/02/06 20:12:52 @@ -1,3 +1,16 @@ +2001-02-06 Alex Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + * texinfo/bbdb.texinfo (Customization Parameters): Documented

void-function replace-in-string

2001-02-03 Thread Alex Schroeder
The latest CVS seems to have an XEmacsism... The function replace-in-string is not in Emacs 20.7. Alex. -- http://www.geocities.com/kensanata/emacs.html "gnu.emacs.help is for GNU Emacs, comp.emacs.xemacs is for XEmacs." ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Zip code bug?

2001-01-30 Thread Alex Schroeder
Mats Lfdahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BBDB does not accept an empty zip code field when I'm entering an address. Because of this, if I don't know the zip code I can't enter the address at all. Oops, you are right. You can either set bbdb-check-zip-codes-p to nil (that should disable

Re: bbdb search problem

2001-01-29 Thread Alex Schroeder
(I removed the original poster from the CC because this mail is code related...) Ronan Waide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As best I can tell, your .bbdb file has a notes field called "name" in at least one of the records. This is colliding with BBDB's "real" name field, causing the stacktrace

Re: archived since March 1997 [was: Re: Archive for this List?]

2001-01-15 Thread Alex Schroeder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc A. Tamsky) writes: Anyone who can add it to the apparently "blessed" mail archive site http://www.mail-archive.com/bbdb-info%40xemacs.org/ please mail me. If you have another use for it, please feel free to contact me as well. Well, you can do that yourself, as

Re: Zip Codes Revisited...

2000-11-08 Thread Alex Schroeder
Alex Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ronan Waide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is this: go ahead with the zips-as-strings conversion (does this mean we need BBDB v6 file format? I guess so...), and modify the validation code to work on the strings - i.e. it doesn't try to parse

Re: Zip Codes Revisited...

2000-11-01 Thread Alex Schroeder
Ronan Waide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is this: go ahead with the zips-as-strings conversion (does this mean we need BBDB v6 file format? I guess so...), and modify the validation code to work on the strings - i.e. it doesn't try to parse the zipcodes into a list or whatever, but it does try

Re: non-american american zip codes in 2.2

2000-09-25 Thread Alex Schroeder
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David S. Goldberg) writes: So I've finally got 2.2 running the way I want, and I just tried out the syncBBDB which worked quite well other than the inevitable duplicate records. While cleaning them out I notice that any zip code I've got that starts with 0, and there are

Re: zip codes as plain strings -- patch and file format change?

2000-07-19 Thread Alex Schroeder
Kevin Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Without checking everywhere zips get used, I think you can get away with not changing the file format - just make the zip a list of a single string. ("like this") Hm well, the main goal I had was to get rid of all the zip parsing and zip to string

`bbdb-current-field' is sometimes off by one

2000-06-06 Thread Alex Schroeder
Hi all, Has anybody noticed bugs in the BBDB 2.2 when trying to delete a field? The problem seems to be that bbdb-current-field tries to identify which fields are being displayed on a line. In a record which looks like this: Tel P: phone home: street1