Re: [BBDB] ChangeLog 2014-04-12
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes: On Tue Apr 8 2014 i...@iankelling.org wrote: I found a bug: Using (first . last) name arg to bbdb-create-internal fails. An example of the error:: (error type mismatch: expect (or nil (cons string string)), got `(Bob . Dole)') Thanks, that was indeed a silly bug. I fixed it different from your patch that would fail for records without a name. Along the way, I also rewrote bbdb-check-type which was way too complicated. Please check that now this works as expected. Yes. It works great. Sorry my patch missed that obvious case. Thank you for the fix. -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BBDB] ChangeLog 2014-04-12
Roland Winkler writes: I can't stand the widget system, but that's just one opinion, obviously... I have never used it for anything more frequently (I do not use customize for customizing emacs). Per Cederqvist's ewoc may be a lighter-weight alternative to Per Abrahamsen's widgets. ISTR seeing it used for UI in some of Stefan Monnier's code (but that was a while back). -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BBDB] ChangeLog 2014-04-12
On Sun Apr 13 2014 Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: bbdb-separator-alist defines the separator for almost all fields to be , . Only for AKAs it is ; . I do not know anymore how this came about. But I find it confusing, and I am thinking about changing the default to , for all fields. Thoughts or comments? Yes please! That has tripped me up a couple of times, and seems pretty arbitrary. Done. John Smith; John Smith, Jr; J. Smith, Esquire I guess we have no shortage in such examples requiring something like `;' instead of `,'. Besides AKAs / names, we may also have organization: HAL, Inc.; Smith, Miller Davis; Company 17 Yet worse mail: sm...@example.com; Smith, John smit...@smith.com; jsm...@foo.com The question remains: what are useful defaults for bbdb-separator-alist? I expect that most users don't worry about such more rare cases. Having consistent defaults provided by bbdb-separator-alist should help most users. In any case, we are talking about a user variable that everyone can customize to his or her liking. -- Put Bad Developers to Shame Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration Continuously Automate Build, Test Deployment Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud. http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BBDB] ChangeLog 2014-04-12
John Smith; John Smith, Jr; J. Smith, Esquire I guess we have no shortage in such examples requiring something like `;' instead of `,'. Besides AKAs / names, we may also have organization: HAL, Inc.; Smith, Miller Davis; Company 17 Yet worse mail: sm...@example.com; Smith, John smit...@smith.com; jsm...@foo.com One proper solution to all this (plus a few other nuisances) could be an interface for editing BBDB records similar to the widget-based interface for customizing Emacs user variables. -- Put Bad Developers to Shame Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration Continuously Automate Build, Test Deployment Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud. http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BBDB] ChangeLog 2014-04-12
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes: John Smith; John Smith, Jr; J. Smith, Esquire I guess we have no shortage in such examples requiring something like `;' instead of `,'. Besides AKAs / names, we may also have organization: HAL, Inc.; Smith, Miller Davis; Company 17 Yet worse mail: sm...@example.com; Smith, John smit...@smith.com; jsm...@foo.com One proper solution to all this (plus a few other nuisances) could be an interface for editing BBDB records similar to the widget-based interface for customizing Emacs user variables. Or to store the value as a list of strings, and make users loop through each string with RET when they edit the value. Sort of like what happens now when you edit a name that distinguishes between surname and given name. It sounds a bit bothersome, but I think in practice it wouldn't be that difficult. I can't stand the widget system, but that's just one opinion, obviously... E -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BBDB] ChangeLog 2014-04-12
On Mon Apr 14 2014 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: Or to store the value as a list of strings, That's what BBDB does anyway, and that's what bbdb-seperator-alist is about: how to split the string which the user edits into what gets actually stored in the database (see split-string). and make users loop through each string with RET when they edit the value. You could always redefine the internal functions which BBDB uses here in order to get the behavior that matches your personal taste. BBDB 3 is fairly modular in that respect. I can't stand the widget system, but that's just one opinion, obviously... I have never used it for anything more frequently (I do not use customize for customizing emacs). In that sense I do not yet know whether I'd like that for myself. In any case, I'd want to keep the current approach, too. But maybe it would even be possible to let users develop their own favorite approach for editing BBDB records. So far, I have not thought about details. -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech ___ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
