Re: Problem creating record

Hi,

so, based on previous mails I ended up with this for Gnus integration:
,----
| (require 'bbdb)
| (bbdb-initialize 'gnus 'message)
| (bbdb-mua-auto-update-init 'gnus 'message)
| (setq bbdb-mua-update-interactive-p '(query . create)
|       bbdb-update-records-p 'query
|       bbdb-mua-auto-update-p 'query)
| (setq bbdb-file "~/.bbdb"
|       bbdb-mua-pop-up-window-size 3
|       bbdb-layout 'one-line
|       bbdb-pop-up-window-size 5
|       bbdb-complete-mail-allow-cycling t)
| (add-hook 'bbdb-notice-mail-hook 'bbdb-auto-notes)
| 
| ; From a message on 19 Jun 2017 by Wes Hardaker in bbdb-info
| ; to solve an issue with ivy + bbdb
| ;(otherwise we can try with just C-M-j (bound to ivy-immediate-done)
| 
| (defadvice bbdb-read-string (before bbdb-read-string-no-ivy activate)
|   (ivy-mode 0))
| (defadvice bbdb-read-string (after bbdb-read-string-yes-ivy activate)
|   (ivy-mode 1))
`----

Not perfect, but quite close to what I wanted. Now when I'm reading
mails from inside Gnus, the BBDB buffer shows the record for the sender
and it is updated automatically when I move from one message to another,
and it asks me whether I want to add a new record when it finds one that
is not in the database (if I don't want to add that person, it can be a
bit annoying, because it will ask me everytime I see a mail from that
person, not remembering I said 'no' already to that mail).

To make it perfect I would prefer to:
* if the sender is not in the database, get an empty BBDB buffer
* to be able to create (not automatically, but issuing a command, so I
  can decide when/if to add it to the database) a new record with the
  info from the sender (similar to the old BBDB ":" behaviour).


(Roland says that the right way to activate BBDB is by loading
bbdb-loaddefs.el, but I don't find that file anywhere in my BBDB
directory, and (require 'bbdb) seems to do the right thing?)


Cheers,
Ángel de Vicente



Greg Bognar <[email protected]> writes:

> On Mon 19 Jun 2017 at 18:18 Roland Winkler wrote:
>> On Mon Jun 19 2017 Greg Bognar wrote:
>> > I am in the same situation with Wanderlust, so it seems a general
>> > BBDB3 problem.  With BBDB2 I was able to do something similar to
>> > what you describe in WL.  Now BBDB never asks to harvest any
>> > address (unless I press :), no matter what settings I try.  I
>> > asked about it on this list a few months ago, but didn't get
>> > anything useful.
>> 
>> Have you looked into the README file?
>> 
>> I know, it is not perfect.  But it should get you started.
>
> The relevant parts of my init.el:
>
> (require 'bbdb)
> (bbdb-initialize 'wl)
> (bbdb-mua-auto-update-init 'wl)
> (load "~/.emacs.d/filters") ;; Filters for BBDB
> (setq bbdb-mua-update-interactive-p '(query . create)
>       bbdb-update-records-p 'query
>       bbdb-mua-auto-update-p 'query)
> (setq bbdb-file "~/.emacs.d/bbdb"
>       bbdb-mua-pop-up-window-size 3
>       bbdb-layout 'one-line
>       bbdb-pop-up-window-size 5
>       bbdb-complete-mail-allow-cycling t)
> (add-hook 'bbdb-notice-mail-hook 'bbdb-auto-notes)
>
> This is how far I got.  The ~/.emacs.d/filters file contains the variables
> bbdb-accept-message-alist and bbdb-ignore-message-alist.
-- 
Ángel de Vicente
http://angel-de-vicente.blogspot.com/


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