Re: BBDB woes

[Richard Lewis <richardlewis@fastmail.co.uk>]

At Sat, 28 Jul 2012 20:57:23 +0900,
Masaru Nomiya wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> >>>>> In the Message: [Wanderlust English ML: No.05193]
> >>>>>   with the date of Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:25:58 +0100
> >>>>> [RL] == Richard Lewis <richardlewis@fastmail.co.uk> has written:
> 
> RL> Since upgrading to Emacs 24 (from the Debian unstable packages), I'm
> RL> having real trouble with my BBDB and I'm not sure where to get
> RL> help. There are so many things going wrong that I'm not at a loss to
> RL> document them all properly. So here's a list of some of them:
> 
> RL>  * BBDB won't parse my .bbdb file anymore; it reports type errors for
> RL>    various values in the file. In some places it expects lists and
> RL>    finds strings, and in others it expects strings and finds lists.
> 
> RL>  * There seem to be at least two versions of BBDB around, 2.36 and
> RL>    3.02. I think I've tried installing both. And neither will parse my
> RL>    .bbdb file.
> 
> I'm using bbdb 2.32 on Emacs 24.1.50, and I don't get any probs.
> I think, your .bbdb is corrupted.
> 
> When you start WL and get error mesage, open the bbdb buffer.
> It show you the problematic point in the .bbdb.

I think you're probably right. I've moved ~/.bbdb out of the way and
started creating a new .bbdb using bbdb-create. This new file does not
cause any problems. My old .bbdb began like this

  ;; -*-coding: utf-8-emacs;-*-
  ;;; file-version: 6
  ;;; user-fields: (ML ml irc-nick finger-host bitlbee-name anniversary)

And then some records had values for these fields. Perhaps this is not
supported in BBDB 3.02.

Richard