The patch below gives some minor improvements for bbdb-complete-mail.
- Cycle even if the record contains only one mail address, yet
bbdb-dwim-mail gives us something different from what we have.
For example, a message header "JOHN SMITH <sm...@foo.com>" may be
replaced by "John Smith <sm...@foo.com>".
- Search correctly for RFC 822 addresses containing a full name.
The latter change revealed another unexpected surprise with BBDB:
Part of BBDB (yes, even v2) has allowed the possibility that a mail
address in a record is not just a plain "sm...@foo.com". But the
record of, say, Johnathan Smith may also contain an RFC 822 address
such as "John Smith <sm...@foo.com>".
Jognathan Smith
phone (home): (123) 456-7890
mail: sm...@example.com, John Smith <sm...@foo.com>,
Joe Smith <j...@bar.com>
Obviously, this comes handy, if you want to use different mail
addresses in a record with different real names. But this feature
has been implemented rather incompletely. To make this work
properly, the hash table should always use canonical addresses such
as sm...@foo.com. But currently BBDB puts "John Smith
<sm...@foo.com>" in the hash table which makes it really impossible
to find sm...@foo.com in this table. (A hash table does not allow to
search for a regexp.)
Would it be useful if the canonical mail address "sm...@foo.com"
contained in full mail address "John Smith <sm...@foo.com>" was
recognized properly throughout BBDB? This will require many calls of
`mail-extract-address-components' upon startup and elsewhere, too. I
do not expect this to become a serious bottleneck. But I'd have to
look through the code a bit more carefully to identify all spots
that need to be changed. Oh well...
2012-07-31 Roland Winkler <wink...@gnu.org>
* lisp/bbdb-com.el (bbdb-complete-mail): When a single record
matches, analyze more carefully which mail address to use. Cycle
even if the record contains only one mail address, yet
bbdb-dwim-mail gives us something different from what we have.
Search correctly for RFC 822 addresses containing a full name.
BBDB is available at
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/bbdb/
To check it out, use
git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/bbdb.git
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