On Tuesday, February 6 2001 22:31:40, Patrick Campbell-Preston wrote:
[...]
> I've downloaded the latest CVS version via Ronan's bbdb page, and
> verified that I am able to reproduce the bug with it, with the simple
> .bbdb described above and nothing in my .emacs apart from loading the
> bbdb and calling (bbdb-initialize 'sendmail 'rmail) - but not in
> XEmacs, only in GNU Emacs.
Ahh it's a GNU Emacs problem.
A fix is in CVS now.
Not only the BBDB version but also the Emacs version and
sometime the OS is making problems, so it is a good idea to
report all of these when reporting bugs ;)
On Tuesday, February 6 2001 23:38:08, Patrick Campbell-Preston wrote:
[...]
> I just think this change is probably to blame for my bug, and it's
> confusing and inconsistent in any case. There doesn't seem to be a
> way to switch off this new and inconsistent behaviour - even without
> the bug it amounts to an upward incompatibility. Now I actually have
> to remember whether I've invoked completion already before I have an
> idea what it will do. I guess people who cared about user interface
> design would call that a cognitive burden.
O.k. switching it off would be a nice feature, I agree on
that.
> And for repeated invocations I have no way of knowingly
> getting back to the primary address again - I just have to
> cycle round and recognise it, or go and look at the bbdb
> record itself, or maybe delete some text and start again.
GNU Emacs: C-u M-TAB DOWN RET
Xemacs: C-u M-TAB RET
Bye Robert
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