"Roland Winkler" <wink...@gnu.org> writes:
I think I've got an invisible organization field, somehow. I have, for
instance, an short entry like:
Friendly Acquaintence -
mail: frien...@provider.com
When I try 'i' and then "organization," I'm told the field
already exists. I've tried putting point in every available space to the
right of the name, but get the result of "point not in a field."
Thank you for telling me about 'tmm-menubar.' That seems potentially
pretty useful.
Best!
steven
> On Fri Mar 28 2014 Steven Arntson wrote:
>> For some reason the version of BBDB I got from M/ELPA came with a
>> "manual" that contains only a single sentence, which is "The first
>> chapter is the only chapter in this sample."
>
> Yes, the current info pages of BBDB v3 are just a stub.
> (Volunteers welcome!)
>
>> I'm running emacs in an environment without a menu bar,
>
>>From the Emacs info pages (unless you customized Emacs not to show
> any menu bar)
>
> On a text terminal, you can use the menu bar by typing `M-`' or
> <F10> (these run the command `tmm-menubar'). This lets you select a
> menu item with the keyboard. A provisional choice appears in the echo
> area. You can use the up and down arrow keys to move through the menu
> to different items, and then you can type <RET> to select the item.
> Each menu item is also designated by a letter or digit (usually the
> initial of some word in the item's name). This letter or digit is
> separated from the item name by `==>'. You can type the item's letter
> or digit to select the item.
>
>> and have used minibuffer completion a few times, but sometimes I
>> still can't figure things out. Your advice to use 'i' works
>> sometimes. Other times I get a message of "Field [fieldname]
>> already exists." In this case, I guess the field "organization"
>> has already been created, but is empty, so I can neither create it
>> nor move the point to it to 'e' edit it.
>
> If the organization field was empty, it would be deleted
> automatically. A typical BBDB record looks like the following
>
> Foo, Bar - Org1, Org2, Org3
> phone (home): 123 4567
> address (home): street1
> City
> Emacs
> mail: ema...@example.com
> AKA: baz1; baz2
> notes: This is a note.
>
> Here the organiztions are "Org1, Org2, Org3". Put point on the
> field you want to edit, then run bbdb-edit-field bound t `e'.
>
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