Re: bbdb being too inquisitive

For your information, I have figured out what happened and thought people might
be interested.

At the first invocation of bbdb-complete-mail, bbdbv3 starts to give me a long
list of warnings about duplicate entries e.g.

Duplicate BBDB record encountered: zoe

These go on for some minutes and then stop.

If I ctrl-g out of this listing process then bbdb-complete-mail no longer
works. But if I patiently wait for five minutes until it has completed listing
all the things that are wrong with my current .bbdb file then bbdb-complete-mail
works.

Setting bbdb-allow-duplicates to t tells bbdb3 to not give such warnings.

So my completion is now working, but now I just have to work through my .bbdb
file to get rid of duplicates :(

best wishes,
raj


On 6 June 2019 [email protected] ([email protected]) writes:
> 
> Please ignore my previous email, bbdb has made a liar out of me but I don't know
> how I managed to get completion to work, but that is almost certainly because I
> am being an idiot.
> 
> apologies for noise,
> raj
> 
> On 6 June 2019 [email protected] ([email protected]) writes:
> > 
> > Hi Roland,
> > 
> > I have upgraded to bbdb3 and am cleaning up my various customisation files but I
> > am not able to get bbdb-complete-mail to work (it used to work with the older
> > version of bbdb that I had).
> > 
> > Just to check bbdb-version gives me this:
> > BBDB version 3.1.2 (2015-10-28 17:19:27+00:00)
> > 
> > If I look inside my .bbdb I can find the following entry:
> > 
> > ["Roland" "Winkler" nil nil nil nil nil ("[email protected]") ((creation-date. "2019-06-04") (timestamp . "2019-06-04")) nil]
> > 
> > I fire up a composition buffer and type "winker" in the To field, ensure that
> > point is after "winkler" and then try to execute bbdb-complete-mail and it just
> > does nothing! No error but not completion either.
> > 
> > I read the manual a bit and so checked the value of the following variable:
> > 
> > bbdb-completion-list is a variable defined in `bbdb.el'.
> > Its value is t
> > 
> > The beginning of my cutomisation file contains these lines:
> > 
> > (require 'bbdb)
> > (bbdb-initialize 'vm) 
> > (setq bbdb-file "~/.bbdb")
> > (load-library "bbdb-spam.el")
> > (require 'bbdb-com)
> > 
> > So I am assuming that vm knows that my .bbdb file lives in ~/.bbdb
> > 
> > I am now stumped. Any help appreciated.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > raj
> > 
> > 
> > 

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