BBDB suddenly not working for me
Emacs 24.3.1 BBDB 20140515.806 I've been using BBDB with great success for a few months, but tonight it has stopped working. I was changing with some settings for org-agenda, trying to get BBDB to send info on anniversaries. I'm not sure if it was this or something else ... I've tried to revert those changes, but now I'm just confused. When I try to retrieve a record in the bbdb buffer with M-x bbdb, the output is No records matching (string). Completion of email addresses in gnus is no longer working, either. My .bbdb is in ~/.emacs.d/.bbdb, and all the data in there seems ok. In my .emacs I have: ;; bbdb (require 'bbdb) ;;Tell bbdb about your email address: (setq bbdb-user-mail-names (regexp-opt '(ste...@stevenarntson.com))) ;;cycling while completing email addresses (setq bbdb-complete-name-allow-cycling t) ;;No popup-buffers (setq bbdb-use-pop-up nil) And in my .gnus a little more: ;;newer specs for v.3+ (require 'bbdb-autoloads) (bbdb-initialize 'gnus 'message) (bbdb-mua-auto-update-init 'gnus) (setq bbdb-file ~/.emacs.d/.bbdb) (setq bbdb-complete-mail-allow-cycling t) ;; control pop-up and its size (setq bbdb-message-pop-up nil) ;; What do we do when invoking bbdb interactively (setq bbdb-mua-update-interactive-p '(query . create)) ;; Make sure we look at every address in a message and not only the ;; first one (setq bbdb-message-all-addresses t) (add-hook 'message-setup-hook 'bbdb-mail-aliases) (require 'bbdb-anniv) ; BBDB 3.x this gets birthdays in org agenda ; and diary - clever stuff (add-hook 'diary-list-entries-hook 'bbdb-anniv-diary-entries) Does anyone have any idea what might be wrong? I'd appreciate any advice, for I'm quickly discovering how paralyzed I am without this utility! :) Best! steven arntson -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: BBDB suddenly not working for me
Steven Arntson ste...@stevenarntson.com writes: Emacs 24.3.1 BBDB 20140515.806 I've been using BBDB with great success for a few months, but tonight it has stopped working. I was changing with some settings for org-agenda, trying to get BBDB to send info on anniversaries. I'm not sure if it was this or something else ... I've tried to revert those changes, but now I'm just confused. When I try to retrieve a record in the bbdb buffer with M-x bbdb, the output is No records matching (string). Completion of email addresses in gnus is no longer working, either. My .bbdb is in ~/.emacs.d/.bbdb, and all the data in there seems ok. In my .emacs I have: ;; bbdb (require 'bbdb) ;;Tell bbdb about your email address: (setq bbdb-user-mail-names (regexp-opt '(ste...@stevenarntson.com))) ;;cycling while completing email addresses (setq bbdb-complete-name-allow-cycling t) ;;No popup-buffers (setq bbdb-use-pop-up nil) And in my .gnus a little more: ;;newer specs for v.3+ (require 'bbdb-autoloads) (bbdb-initialize 'gnus 'message) (bbdb-mua-auto-update-init 'gnus) (setq bbdb-file ~/.emacs.d/.bbdb) (setq bbdb-complete-mail-allow-cycling t) ;; control pop-up and its size (setq bbdb-message-pop-up nil) ;; What do we do when invoking bbdb interactively (setq bbdb-mua-update-interactive-p '(query . create)) ;; Make sure we look at every address in a message and not only the ;; first one (setq bbdb-message-all-addresses t) (add-hook 'message-setup-hook 'bbdb-mail-aliases) (require 'bbdb-anniv) ; BBDB 3.x this gets birthdays in org agenda ; and diary - clever stuff (add-hook 'diary-list-entries-hook 'bbdb-anniv-diary-entries) Does anyone have any idea what might be wrong? I'd appreciate any advice, for I'm quickly discovering how paralyzed I am without this utility! :) Hi Steve, This is what I currently have in init.el for bbdb 3 - I'm using John Wiegely's wonderful use-package.el nowadays, but I'm sure you can weed out the useful stuff. Note especially 1. The added argument to bbdb-initialize 2. The absence of (require 'bbdb-anniv) - no longer necessary. Then if you add the 'anniversary:' field to a record thus anniversary: 17/02/1997 Discovered Gnus! Life began! that should show up in the org agenda - though you may need to restart emacs. BBDB and BBDB-ext ;; Now at version 3 (use-package bbdb :config (progn (bbdb-initialize 'gnus 'message 'anniv) (bbdb-mua-auto-update-init 'gnus) (setq bbdb-file ~/.emacs.d/.bbdb) (setq bbdb-complete-mail-allow-cycling t) ;; control pop-up and it's size (setq bbdb-mua-pop-up t) (setq bbdb-mua-pop-up-window-size 0.1) (setq bbdb-mua-update-interactive-p '(query . create)) (setq bbdb-message-all-addresses t) (add-hook 'message-setup-hook 'bbdb-mail-aliases) (add-hook 'diary-list-entries-hook 'bbdb-anniv-diary-entries) )) (use-package bbdb-ext :defer t) Good luck! Glyn -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: BBDB suddenly not working for me
I've been having similar issues. When it happens I delete the .bbdb and *BBDB* buffers and they get reloaded and everything seems okay again. -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: BBDB suddenly not working for me
On Mon Jun 23 2014 Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: I've been having similar issues. When it happens I delete the .bbdb and *BBDB* buffers and they get reloaded and everything seems okay again. I have never encountered this. Could you possibly try to provide a reproducible recipe for this or look at this in the debugger to see what might have gone wrong? Roland PS: deleting ~/.bbdb is obviously dangerous, unless you have a backup system you know for sure to be reliable. -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: BBDB suddenly not working for me
Here's the strangest thing I've encountered in emacs for awhile. I just started a new session, and BBDB still wasn't working. I hit C-x C-b to list the buffers and it informed me of this buffer: bbdb 20446 Emacs-Lisp ~/.emacs.d/bbdb As far as I know, I have no file named bbdb---mine is .bbdb. So I thought, well, this explains it. A ghost file is loading for some reason. And indeed, this buffer contains no data beyond a header. So, I began to compose this post to mention this. I went to the buffer list again, and saw: .bbdb 20446 Emacs-Lisp ~/.emacs.d/.bbdb It fixed itself when I looked away. BBDB is now working perfectly again. -steven arntson Barak A. Pearlmutter ba...@cs.nuim.ie writes: I've been having similar issues. When it happens I delete the .bbdb and *BBDB* buffers and they get reloaded and everything seems okay again. -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/ -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: BBDB suddenly not working for me
I've been having similar issues. When it happens I delete the .bbdb and *BBDB* buffers and they get reloaded and everything seems okay again. I have never encountered this. Could you possibly try to provide a reproducible recipe for this or look at this in the debugger to see what might have gone wrong? So far I have not been able to get anything reliably reproducible. However I *think* this occurs under the following scenario. I'm working on a laptop which holds a local copy of .bbdb, and I copy over a fresh copy of the master .bbdb from another machine, which has some changes made to it. Emacs asks if I want to use the new version, and I say yes. Then this problem happens. Then I C-x k .bbdb C-x k *BBDB* and all is well again. PS: deleting ~/.bbdb is obviously dangerous, unless you have a backup system you know for sure to be reliable. I mean killing the emacs .bbdb buffer, not deleting the file. --Barak. pgpJMCEig4m7Y.pgp Description: PGP signature -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: BBDB suddenly not working for me
On Mon Jun 23 2014 Steven Arntson wrote: Here's the strangest thing I've encountered in emacs for awhile. I just started a new session, and BBDB still wasn't working. I hit C-x C-b to list the buffers and it informed me of this buffer: bbdb 20446 Emacs-Lisp ~/.emacs.d/bbdb As far as I know, I have no file named bbdb---mine is .bbdb. So I thought, well, this explains it. A ghost file is loading for some reason. And indeed, this buffer contains no data beyond a header. This is somewhat strange, but not completely strange. The variable bbdb-file is initialized using a call to locate-user-emacs-file. If this finds an old-fashioned file ~/.bbdb, this becomes the value of bbdb-file. If there is no such old-fashioned file, the value of bbdb-file becomes ~/.emacs.d/bbdb. Then the latter file will be created by BBDB, if emacs cannot find neither ~/.bbdb nor ~/.emacs.d/bbdb. The reason for this is that nowadays all such Emacs files should reside in ~/.emacs.d/ instead of cluttering your home directory. So all this really means that for some strange reason upon startup Emacs does not find your file ~/.bbdb. The function locate-user-emacs-file is nowadays used by many emacs packages. I'd be surprised if their was something wrong with it, though I cannot copletely exclude this either. If you do find the problem to be related to this function, this might be a bug in emacs itself. -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: BBDB suddenly not working for me
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes: On Mon Jun 23 2014 Steven Arntson wrote: Here's the strangest thing I've encountered in emacs for awhile. I just started a new session, and BBDB still wasn't working. I hit C-x C-b to list the buffers and it informed me of this buffer: bbdb 20446 Emacs-Lisp ~/.emacs.d/bbdb As far as I know, I have no file named bbdb---mine is .bbdb. So I thought, well, this explains it. A ghost file is loading for some reason. And indeed, this buffer contains no data beyond a header. This is somewhat strange, but not completely strange. The variable bbdb-file is initialized using a call to locate-user-emacs-file. If this finds an old-fashioned file ~/.bbdb, this becomes the value of bbdb-file. If there is no such old-fashioned file, the value of bbdb-file becomes ~/.emacs.d/bbdb. Then the latter file will be created by BBDB, if emacs cannot find neither ~/.bbdb nor ~/.emacs.d/bbdb. The reason for this is that nowadays all such Emacs files should reside in ~/.emacs.d/ instead of cluttering your home directory. So all this really means that for some strange reason upon startup Emacs does not find your file ~/.bbdb. The function locate-user-emacs-file is nowadays used by many emacs packages. I'd be surprised if their was something wrong with it, though I cannot copletely exclude this either. If you do find the problem to be related to this function, this might be a bug in emacs itself. Maybe the problem lies with my inexperienced directory nomenclature, where I'm using ~/.emacs.d/.bbdb --- a hybrid between the two options you listed. Should I rename ~/.emacs.d/.bbdb to ~/.emacs.d/bbdb ? Thank you! steven -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: BBDB suddenly not working for me
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes: On Mon Jun 23 2014 Steven Arntson wrote: Here's the strangest thing I've encountered in emacs for awhile. I just started a new session, and BBDB still wasn't working. I hit C-x C-b to list the buffers and it informed me of this buffer: bbdb 20446 Emacs-Lisp ~/.emacs.d/bbdb As far as I know, I have no file named bbdb---mine is .bbdb. So I thought, well, this explains it. A ghost file is loading for some reason. And indeed, this buffer contains no data beyond a header. This is somewhat strange, but not completely strange. The variable bbdb-file is initialized using a call to locate-user-emacs-file. If this finds an old-fashioned file ~/.bbdb, this becomes the value of bbdb-file. If there is no such old-fashioned file, the value of bbdb-file becomes ~/.emacs.d/bbdb. Then the latter file will be created by BBDB, if emacs cannot find neither ~/.bbdb nor ~/.emacs.d/bbdb. The reason for this is that nowadays all such Emacs files should reside in ~/.emacs.d/ instead of cluttering your home directory. So all this really means that for some strange reason upon startup Emacs does not find your file ~/.bbdb. The function locate-user-emacs-file is nowadays used by many emacs packages. I'd be surprised if their was something wrong with it, though I cannot copletely exclude this either. If you do find the problem to be related to this function, this might be a bug in emacs itself. Hmmm - could this be related to the OP's bbdb config being spread across two files, init.el and .gnus ? The line telling emacs where to find the bbdb config file is in .gnus, but bbdb is required in init.el. So is Emacs creating the ~/.emacs.d/bbdb buffer, because it can't find the ~/.emacs.d/.bbdb file until .gnus is loaded? If so then shoving all the bbdb config stuff into init.el might do the trick (works for me here). On the other hand I could be barking up a totally wrong tree :-) atb Glyn -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: BBDB suddenly not working for me
Glyn Millington glyn.milling...@gmail.com writes: Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes: On Mon Jun 23 2014 Steven Arntson wrote: Here's the strangest thing I've encountered in emacs for awhile. I just started a new session, and BBDB still wasn't working. I hit C-x C-b to list the buffers and it informed me of this buffer: bbdb 20446 Emacs-Lisp ~/.emacs.d/bbdb As far as I know, I have no file named bbdb---mine is .bbdb. So I thought, well, this explains it. A ghost file is loading for some reason. And indeed, this buffer contains no data beyond a header. This is somewhat strange, but not completely strange. The variable bbdb-file is initialized using a call to locate-user-emacs-file. If this finds an old-fashioned file ~/.bbdb, this becomes the value of bbdb-file. If there is no such old-fashioned file, the value of bbdb-file becomes ~/.emacs.d/bbdb. Then the latter file will be created by BBDB, if emacs cannot find neither ~/.bbdb nor ~/.emacs.d/bbdb. The reason for this is that nowadays all such Emacs files should reside in ~/.emacs.d/ instead of cluttering your home directory. So all this really means that for some strange reason upon startup Emacs does not find your file ~/.bbdb. The function locate-user-emacs-file is nowadays used by many emacs packages. I'd be surprised if their was something wrong with it, though I cannot copletely exclude this either. If you do find the problem to be related to this function, this might be a bug in emacs itself. Hmmm - could this be related to the OP's bbdb config being spread across two files, init.el and .gnus ? The line telling emacs where to find the bbdb config file is in .gnus, but bbdb is required in init.el. So is Emacs creating the ~/.emacs.d/bbdb buffer, because it can't find the ~/.emacs.d/.bbdb file until .gnus is loaded? If so then shoving all the bbdb config stuff into init.el might do the trick (works for me here). On the other hand I could be barking up a totally wrong tree :-) atb Glyn This makes so much sense, I just went ahead and joined the two files. Whether it helps or not, it seems much more logical than what I had going on before! -steven -- Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
