Re: Newbie's confusion about M-x bbdb

2001-06-18 Thread Ronan Waide
On June 18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Can you tell me what you suspect might be the problem? I've always I can't, because I never got around to reproducing it myself. > I'm familiar with (but not proficient at) lisp. My usual technique > for debugging emacs problems is to redefine the offendin

Re: Newbie's confusion about M-x bbdb

2001-06-18 Thread Robert Mecklenburg
RM> I got the tarball from: RM> RM> http://www.waider.ie/hacks/emacs/bbdb/bbdb-2.33.tar.gz RM> RM> and ran configure/make (the make didn't work all that well, I can send RM> a log of the build if you like). RW> Ah. That would be good, yes. RW> ... p.s. Linux or BSD? Well, the ugly truth com

Re: Newbie's confusion about M-x bbdb

2001-06-18 Thread Robert Mecklenburg
RM> (bbdb-version) RM> "BBDB version 2.33 ($Date: 2001/05/21 11:36:47 $)" RW> Hmm, okay. I take it you're downloading and building your own RW> version, or is someone distributing a developer release in a RW> package? I got the tarball from: http://www.waider.ie/hacks/emacs/bbdb/bbdb-2.33.

Re: Newbie's confusion about M-x bbdb

2001-06-18 Thread Ronan Waide
On June 18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > (bbdb-version) > "BBDB version 2.33 ($Date: 2001/05/21 11:36:47 $)" > Hmm, okay. I take it you're downloading and building your own version, or is someone distributing a developer release in a package? Cheers, Waider. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Yes, it /is/

Re: Newbie's confusion about M-x bbdb

2001-06-18 Thread Robert Mecklenburg
RW> On June 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: RM> Signaling: (error "bbdb: cannot access the name field this way") RM> signal(error ("bbdb: cannot access the name field this way")) RM> error("bbdb: cannot access the %s field this way" name) RM> bbdb-record-getprop(["Doug" "Adamson" ("Douglas Adamson") n

Re: Newbie's confusion about M-x bbdb

2001-06-16 Thread Ronan Waide
On June 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Signaling: (error "bbdb: cannot access the name field this way") > signal(error ("bbdb: cannot access the name field this way")) > error("bbdb: cannot access the %s field this way" name) > bbdb-record-getprop(["Doug" "Adamson" ("Douglas A

Newbie's confusion about M-x bbdb

2001-06-15 Thread Robert Mecklenburg
The info node Basic Searching says: You can list the contents of the database with the command `M-x bbdb'. You will be prompted for a regular expression, and all records which match that regexp in the name, company, network address, or any notes fields will be displayed. But