Re: Kai's name (again)

Re: Kai's name (again)

[Kai Großjohann]

paul.moore@atosorigin.com (Paul Moore) writes:

> Alternatively, is there a way of asking the BBDB if the author of an
> article is listed (something I can use in a user-defined Gnus summary
> format line function) so that I can highlight the author, even if I
> don't get the BBDB name. I'm sort-of looking for a way to reimplement
> %uB, but when I looked at the code for that, it was so tied in with
> BBDB internals, that I couldn't understand it :-( [Actually, just
> having a list of public functions for using the BBDB from Lisp would
> be useful - the BBDB manual says nothing about working with it from
> Lisp, AFAICT]

Does it help to frob bbdb/gnus-summary-prefer-real-names?  This
variable is listed in the documentation of gnus-user-format-function-B.

kai
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Re: Kai's name (again)

[Paul Moore]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> paul.moore@atosorigin.com (Paul Moore) writes:
>
>> Alternatively, is there a way of asking the BBDB if the author of an
>> article is listed (something I can use in a user-defined Gnus summary
>> format line function) so that I can highlight the author, even if I
>> don't get the BBDB name. I'm sort-of looking for a way to reimplement
>> %uB, but when I looked at the code for that, it was so tied in with
>> BBDB internals, that I couldn't understand it :-( [Actually, just
>> having a list of public functions for using the BBDB from Lisp would
>> be useful - the BBDB manual says nothing about working with it from
>> Lisp, AFAICT]
>
> Does it help to frob bbdb/gnus-summary-prefer-real-names?  This
> variable is listed in the documentation of gnus-user-format-function-B.

Not so you'd notice. Setting it to nil or 'bbdb makes the summary
buffer use the E-Mail address rather than the name (which doesn't look
much good...)

Thanks for the suggestion.
Paul

Re: Kai's name (again)

[Kai Großjohann]

Clemens Fischer <ino@despammed.com> writes:

> paul.moore@atosorigin.com (Paul Moore) writes:
>
>> %uB, but when I looked at the code for that, it was so tied in with
>> BBDB internals, that I couldn't understand it :-( [Actually, just
>> having a list of public functions for using the BBDB from Lisp would
>> be useful - the BBDB manual says nothing about working with it from
>> Lisp, AFAICT]
>
> maybe M-x imenu could help?

It doesn't tell Paul which functions are internal to BBDB and which
are considered to be the interface.

kai
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