>>>>> On 4 Apr 95, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert P. Goldman) wrote:
goldman> Thanks for the tip, but actually, it isn't quite right --- since I
goldman> am in the states, by and large I want to use North American phone
goldman> numbers. But when I'm editing a NON-NA phone number, I don't want
goldman> it to be incorrectly read as one.
goldman> What I would like is to have the
goldman> bbdb-north-american-phone-numbers-p flag TEMPORARILY bound to nil
goldman> when I am editing a non-NA phone number.
I'm not sure if this will work in your situation, but if you supply a prefix
to bbdb-insert-new-field, it will disable checking for North American phone
number syntax. See the doc string for bbdb-north-american-phone-numbers-p:
*Set this to nil if you want to enter phone numbers that aren't the same
syntax as those in North America (that is, [[1] nnn] nnn nnnn ['x' n*]).
If this is true, then some error checking is done so that you can't enter
incorrect phone numbers, and all phone numbers are pretty-printed the same
way. European phone numbers don't have as strict a syntax, however, so
this is a harder problem for them (on which I am punting).
You can have both styles of phone number in your database by providing a
prefix argument to the bbdb-insert-new-field command.
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Mike Hucka ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
