On Fri Oct 29 2010 Johnny wrote: > I recently discovered Gnus and BBDB with that; found the most recent > development by Roland on Savannah which I downloaded and installed > successfully. Now, I am trying to figure out different settings and > configurations how to use BBDB effectively; are there any good guides or > sources of information where I should start?
To see which commands you can use, I suggest looking at the BBDB menu in the menubar. It shows you both the commands that are available as well keybinding shortcuts. (For me, this is a general strategy for any new emacs package I like to work with.) > Ok, I have realised that the BBDB 2.35 documentation works ok and > using 'C-h a', 'C-h v' goes a long way. Updating the info pages is on my todo list. But it's a somewhat bigger project. I am sorry for the delay. Volunteers welcome! One more thing: though in general I do not use Emacs customize myself, I tried to group BBDB variables into custom groups such that you find in one location all the BBDB variables that do belong together, say, for the display of BBDB records, or for editing them (unlike what you get with C-h a). By the way, I said multiple times on this list that I am only using BBDB with VM; but I have not been able to test BBDB 3.XX with Gnus. Any feedback on the interplay of Gnus with BBDB 3.XX is appreciated! There might still be some silly bugs. > However, I am trying to make BBDB stop > asking me to add mail addresses. I found: > > bbdb-add-address(es) in the online documentation and set this to > nil or 'never. Is this a typo? I believe there was never such a variable. In any case, for BBDB "address" refers to snail mail addresses and "mail" refers to email addresses. > I also found: > > bbdb-add-mails by 'C-h v' and set this to nil > > Regardless of method, BBDB keeps asking me to add mails! How can I > make it stop doing that? In which context is BBDB asking you this? When you are reading mail or news with Gnus? Also, what do you mean by "adding mails"? Creating new records? Note that bbdb-add-mails refers to adding mail addresses to existing records. It has nothing to do with creation of new records. (It seems the docstring of this variable could be improved.) Concerning the creation of new records: My intention has been to have the default settings for BBDB the least obtrusive. And with VM I think this works, so only if you configure some variables, BBDB will create new records. Cheers, Roland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
