Re: updating, confused

[Roland Winkler]

On Tue Sep 4 2018 Greg Troxel wrote:
> Thanks very much for your patience, and to N. Jackson for the ^U : hint.
> I did read README before posting, but my mental picture of how it used
> to work was too strong.

I never became a serious user of BBDB v2.  Hence I may not always be
the one who can explain best how things have changed.

> Having reread README with your comments and N.'s hint, I'm
> straightened out.

Great!

> +When thinking about how to choose, consider that you may want
> +interactive commands to be more aggresive if you automatically display
> +records.  As an example, (query . create) would cause : to ask and ^U
> +: to create; this fits a usage pattern where an existing record is
> +displayed and you don't use : to ask to see the existing record.

Thanks. A more detailed discussion of how BBDB can act more or less
aggressively might help more people.  At the same time, it's a
complex business because there are so many options and so many
personal preferences of how one may want to combine these options
that this can become yet more overwhelming than just listing the
options one by one (as already at the beginning of bbdb.el).

Roland