Re: how to use bbdb-snarf to capture addresses from point

[Roland Winkler]

On Sun Jan 26 2020 Bob Newell wrote:
> bbdb-snarf seems to work anywhere. A good way is this. Put point on
> the email you want to snarf and evaluate
> 
> (bbdb-snarf (thing-at-point 'email))

thing-at-point only returns the email address itself, not the name that
may go with it.  Therefore, it is probably cleaner to put point and
mark around the region you want to snarf.  Also, if you define a
command, it is probably cleaner to spell out the snarfing rule you
want to use (which is 'mail for the above).

To refresh my memories how snarfing works, I picked two test cases
included at the end of bbdb-snarf.el.  The 1st one for "Maja
Musterfrau" works with rule 'eu; the 2nd one with rule 'mail.  Put
point and mark around them.  Then M-x bbdb-snarf does the job.


Maja Musterfrau
Strasse 15
12345 Ort
+49 12345
phon: (110) 123 456
mobile: (123) 456 789
address@hidden
http://www.xxx.xx
notes bla bla bla


z test person <address@hidden>