BBDB 3.02 bbdb/gnus-edit-notes not working

BBDB 3.02 bbdb/gnus-edit-notes not working

[Johnny]

Ok, so I have reverted to bbdb 2.35 to test the ';'
(bbdb/gnus-edit-notes) functionality, and using this function adds the
sender to the database if not already present, as explained in the info files. 

This function is broken in bbdb 3.02 as the ';' does not add the sender
to the database. 

Cross-posting (let me know if this is wrong) to the gnus mailing list,
if some experience Gus user has resolved this. 

Previous said on this topic as below...

"Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org> writes:
> On Wed Feb 2 2011 Johnny wrote:
>> "Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> Further, I don't understand how to get the bbdb/gnus-show-sender to add
>> unknown addresses; 
> [snip]
>
>> However, browsing the lisp code, I assume that the following is actually
>> invoked (?) which seems to simply return nothing if the sender is not
>> found, as opposed to adding the sender:
>> 
>> > (defun bbdb/gnus-summary-sender-in-bbdb (header)
>> >   "Given a Gnus message header, return a mark if the poster is in the BBDB,
>> > \" \" otherwise.  The mark itself is the value of the field indicated
>> > by `bbdb/gnus-message-marker-field' (`mark-char' by default) if the
>> indicated field
>> > is in the poster's record, and `bbdb/gnus-summary-known-poster-mark'
>> otherwise."
>> > 
>> 
>> Is there something I am missing here, as I believe there ought to be a
>> fast and easy method to do exactly what is stated in the manual;
>> i.e. look up an address, and if it doesn't exist, volunteer to add
>> it.
>
> The generic command for this is now bbdb-mua-display-sender.
> In Gnus, BBDB binds this command to ";".
>
> Unfortunately I am not a more experienced Gnus user, and there is a
> nasty technicality about keybindings in Gnus that I do not yet
> understand myself:
>
> While bbdb-insinuate-gnus contains the line
>
>   (define-key gnus-summary-mode-map ":" 'bbdb-mua-display-sender)
>
> the command `gnus-article-read-summary-keys provides an additional
> wrapper for bbdb-mua-display-sender which restores the windwo
> configuration if this command is invoked from within a Gnus
> *Article* buffer.  So the command bbdb-mua-display-sender has not
> quite the intended effect of displaying a BBDB window for the record
> matching the sender of a Gnus message.  
>
> Currently, the command bbdb-mua-display-sender only works as
> intended from within a Gnus *Summary* buffer.
>
> Comments from more experienced Gnus users are appreciated.
> Possibly, we should continue this thread on the Gnus mailing list.
>
> Roland

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Re: BBDB 3.02 bbdb/gnus-edit-notes not working

[Roland Winkler]

 On Wed Feb 16 2011 Johnny wrote:
> Ok, so I have reverted to bbdb 2.35 to test the ';'
> (bbdb/gnus-edit-notes) functionality, and using this function adds the
> sender to the database if not already present, as explained in the info files. 
> 
> This function is broken in bbdb 3.02 as the ';' does not add the sender
> to the database. 
> 
> Cross-posting (let me know if this is wrong) to the gnus mailing list,
> if some experience Gus user has resolved this. 

Finally I got a rudimentary gnus running. When I invoke
bbdb-mua-edit-notes-sender (formerly bbdb/gnus-edit-notes) it allows
me to edit notes as expected. (I used the latest version of BBDB
that I submitted today. Yet I believe that none of the latest
changes should be relevant here.)

Actually, what do you mean more precisely by the following?

> the ';' does not add the sender to the database.

This is controlled by your setting of bbdb/gnus-update-records-p.
What is your value of this variable? The default is a query, which
is exactly what I got in my test.

Roland

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Re: BBDB 3.02 bbdb/gnus-edit-notes not working

[Johnny]

"Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org> writes:

>  On Wed Feb 16 2011 Johnny wrote:
>> Ok, so I have reverted to bbdb 2.35 to test the ';'
>> (bbdb/gnus-edit-notes) functionality, and using this function adds the
>> sender to the database if not already present, as explained in the info files. 
>> 
>> This function is broken in bbdb 3.02 as the ';' does not add the sender
>> to the database. 
>
> Finally I got a rudimentary gnus running. When I invoke
> bbdb-mua-edit-notes-sender (formerly bbdb/gnus-edit-notes) it allows
> me to edit notes as expected. (I used the latest version of BBDB
> that I submitted today. Yet I believe that none of the latest
> changes should be relevant here.)

This has been on my todo list for a while now, and I finally got around
to fetch the latest git version of the bbdb3, and now the ';' adds the
user as expected. I have the same settings in my init as last time, so I
don't know why it failed. User incompetence maybe? Anyhow, I'll go back
to bbdb3 to follow development. Sorry about the commotion and thanks!

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