Re: bbdb3

>> have bbdb3 installed, easy peasy, using package, thanks ken.
>> 
>> but my old bbdb2 elisp is completely monstrous, cruft of decades and i
>> do not know what 10% of it does.
>> 
>> on a new machine, i need something simple to
>> save-the-from-address-in-this-message and tab completion when composing.
> 
> emacswiki, https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BBDBV3-Wl, tempts me with
> 
>     when you read an e-mail you find a new buffer below with the
>     sender’s information in the BBDB. If the sender’s information
>     doesn’t exists in the database, it will request if you like to add
>     it.
> 
> but when i read a message, i get
> 
>     Error occured in running wl-message-redisplay-hook, (BBDB: MUA ‘mime-view-mode’ not supported)
> 
> this is what i have for bbdb3 in .wl
> 
>     (setq bbdb-file "~/.bbdb")
>     (require 'bbdb) 
>     (bbdb-initialize 'wl)
>     (bbdb-mua-auto-update-init 'wl)
>     (setq bbdb-update-records-p 'create)
>     (setq bbdb-pop-up-window-size 5)

you have entered a dark room.  you have waited a week and still no one
else is there.  as far as you can tell from the echoes, no one else has
ever been there.  you feel very lonely.  you wonder if you should leave
and go back to the other room.

randy