Re: bbdb being too inquisitive

"Roland Winkler" <[email protected]> Fri, 7 Jun 2019 21:45:01 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.bbdb.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu Jun 6 2019 [email protected] wrote:
> 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 :(

Duplicates are no fundamental obstacle for BBDB if
bbdb-allow-duplicates is t.  Yet it is likely a matter of sanity to
use such duplicates deliberately.  Multiple records for the same
person are likely a matter of confusion.