06/02/11 18:26, Roland Winkler > On Sun Feb 6 2011 Antoine Levitt wrote: >> >> When using another completion in message mode, such as >> >> >> >> (setq message-tab-body-function (lambda () (interactive) (dabbrev-expand >> >> nil))) >> >> >> >> , a successful BBDB completion also triggers the dabbrev-expand >> >> completion. >> > >> > I am not sure I understand your problem. (I am not using >> > message-mode myself.) >> >> The way message, as insinuated by bbdb, works, is that it calls bbdb >> first, and then if the return value is nil, calls >> message-tab-body-function : see message-tab and message-expand-name. >> >> Therefore, message depends on the return value of >> bbdb-complete-name. Without going into the details of message, simply >> type "Bo" and eval (bbdb-complete-name) in a buffer. If it completes to >> a single name, it returns nil, which is not the behaviour relied upon by >> message (and possibly other MUAs). > > I see! It seems we have here another example that other code has > evolved, but BBDB is still behaving in some kind of old-fashioned way. > > Currently bbdb-complete-mail (the new name of bbdb-complete-name) > really has no well-defined return values whatsoever. Would it help > if it returned non-nil whenever it had done "something"? Would this > be the right thing??
I believe it would. That's the way other completions framework behave, and certainly the way message expects it to. But then again, I'm no expert on these things, and maybe other MUA have different expectations. In any event, a simple "t" after (run-hooks 'bbdb-complete-mail-hook) does the trick, but it probably needs to be changed in some other places. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access resources and provide services. The best practices for maximizing a physical server's connectivity to a physical network are well understood - see how these rules translate into the virtual world? http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnlfb _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
