Re: bbdb being too inquisitive

[Rajeev.Gore]

Apologies, I retracted too early. My bbdb still does not allow me to complete
mails as per my previous request.

raj

On 6 June 2019 address@hidden (address@hidden) writes:
> 
> 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
> > 
> > 
> >