Re: updating, confused

I am no BBDB expert, but I believe I can answer two of your questions.

At 18:23 -0400 on Monday 2018-09-03, Greg Troxel wrote:
>
> Now, in gnus, looking at a message, typing : gets me the bbdb buffer if
> the sender already has an entry.
>
> But, if there is no entry, I don't see anything.  I used to create
> entries that way.

Does `C-u :' do what you want here? If so, consider customizing
`bbdb-mua-update-interactive-p'.

Here its value is `(search . query)' (which I think is probably the
default), and it sounds like you want `(query . query)' or even `(query
. create)'.

> and what I want is for bbdb to
>
>   automatically display the record of the sender

Perhaps setting `bbdb-mua-auto-update-p' to `search' is what you want
here.

N.