Re: Conversion of old db

On Fri Dec 27 2019 Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> Do you have a simple two or three liner I could add to .emacs to
> the same effect?

Does the following work for you (to be added to .emacs)?

(with-eval-after-load 'bbdb
  (advice-add 'bbdb-mode :after (lambda (&rest args)
                                  (setq buffer-undo-list t))))

> Guessing here but maybe because Emacs is reasonably subtle here
> and keep the *Message* in a background buffer?  It wasn't a hard
> "failed, here is the message" error.

Yes, Emacs handles this gracefully.  But it is irritating, unless
you know what to do with this.