Re: bbdb being too inquisitive

[Rajeev.Gore]

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 address@hidden (address@hidden) 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 ("address@hidden") ((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
> 
> 
>