Ronan Waide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I said
> > [1] ((and bbdb-quiet-about-name-mismatches old-name)
> > (message "name mismatch: \"%s\" changed to \"%s\""
> > (bbdb-record-name record) name)
> > (sit-for 1))
> > [1] If bbdb-quiet-about-name-mismatches is set to t
> > then... er. That should be (not bbdb-quiet-blah). That's going
> > right into CVS now.
> >
>
> Doh. Someone slap me with a kipper for not spotting this sooner. In
> the original code, when bbdb-quiet-about-name-mismatches was t, you'd
> just get a message in the minibuf; the record didn't actually
> change. When it's nil, you get prompted for changing the record and
> for putting the old value in the AKA field (optionally). So in essence
> the variable should've been bbdb-dont-ask-about-name-mismatches or
> something. I've restored the original code so that it works the way
> you'd probably expected, and left in the bbdb-silent-running fix so
> that if bbdb-silent-running is set, you don't get the message.
>
> On July 14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > name mismatch: "HarryIV Putnam" changed to "Harry Putnam"
> >
>
> This message will be suppressed by setting bbdb-silent-running to
> t. As noted, it's not telling you that it changed the record; it's
> simply mentioning that it noticed the change but didn't record it.
>From .gnus:
(setq bbdb-quiet-about-name-mismatches t)
(setq bbdb-silent-running t)
This doesn't hold for:
BBDB version 2.2 ($Date: 2000/05/29 22:47:50 $)
(setq bbdb-quiet-about-name-mismatches t)
(setq bbdb-silent-running t)
name mismatch: "HarryIV Putnam" changed to "Harry Putnam"
Sorry I've forgotten what version I need for this to work.
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