Re: Trying to get ":" key in Gnus summary to add/edit senders in BBDB (again)

Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <[email protected]> Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:26:29 +0200

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Steinar Bang <[email protected]> writes:

> For anyone googling into this thread, here is my complete BBDB config in .emacs:
>
> (when (locate-library "bbdb")
>   (require 'bbdb)
>   (bbdb-initialize 'gnus 'message))
> (setq bbdb-user-mail-address-re "\\(sb@\\|steinar@my\\.domain\\.com\\)"
>       bbdb-phone-style nil)

One more tip (also see the comment mentioning `setopt'):

You can simplify

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(when (locate-library "bbdb")
  (require 'bbdb)
  ...
)
#+end_src

to

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(when (require 'bbdb nil t)
  ...
)
#+end_src

Michael.