Re: Pop up bbdb right of article buffer

[Xavier Maillard]

On 16 sep 2004, Tassilo Horn wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I use Gnus with bbdb and when I open a mail whose sender is in
> my bbdb a new window pops up below the article buffer like
> this:
> 

 [ ... ]

> The article buffer should at least be 90 columns wide, the rest
> should be for bbdb. One thing which prevents me from using
> gnus-add-configuration is that the bbdb buffer should only be
> there when the article's sender is in my bbdb. If not the bbdb
> buffer should be closed.
> 
> All in all: How can I change the bbdb popup window's position
> without changing the default bbdb behaviour?
> 
> If there are some variables/functions to do this, pointing me
> to them should be enough, I hope.

Read BBDB manual should give you answers :)

For example have a look to:

,----[ C-h v bbdb-pop-up-target-lines RET ]
| bbdb-pop-up-target-lines's value is 4
| 
| *Desired number of lines in a VM/MH/RMAIL/GNUS pop-up bbdb window.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
| 
| Defined in `bbdb'.
`----

,----[ C-h v bbdb-display-layout RET ]
| bbdb-display-layout's value is multi-line
| 
| *The default display layout.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
| 
| Defined in `bbdb'.
`----

,----[ C-h v bbdb-display-layout-alist RET ]
| bbdb-display-layout-alist's value is shown below.
| 
| *An alist describing each display layout.
| The format of an element is (LAYOUT-NAME OPTION-ALIST).
| 
| By default there are four different layout types used by BBDB, which are
| `one-line', `multi-line', `pop-up-multi-line' (used for pop-ups) and
| `full-multi-line' (showing all fields of a record).
| 
| OPTION-ALIST specifies the options for the layout.  Valid options are:
| 
|                            ------- Availability --------
|     Format                  one-line        multi-line        default if unset
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|  (toggle . BOOL)                 +               +              nil
|  (order . FIELD-LIST)            +               +              '(phones ...)
|  (omit . FIELD-LIST)             +               +              nil
|  (name-end . INTEGER)            +               -              40
|  (indentation . INTEGER)         -               +              14
|  (primary . BOOL)                -               +              nil
|  (test . SEXP)                   +               +              nil
| 
| - toggle: controls if this layout is included when toggeling the display 
layout
| - order: defines a user specific order for the fields, where `t' is a place
|   holder for all remaining fields
| - omit: is a list of fields which should not be displayed or `t' to exclude 
all
|   fields except those listed in the order option
| - name-end: sets the column where the name should end in one-line layout.
| - indentation: sets the level of indentation for multi-line display.
| - primary: controls wether only the primary net is shown or all are shown.
| - test: a lisp expression controlling wether the record is to be displayed.
| 
| When you add a new layout FOO, you can write a corresponding layout
| function bbdb-format-record-layout-FOO.  If you do not write your own
| layout function, the multi-line layout will be used.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
| 
| Defined in `bbdb'.
| 
| Value:
| ((one-line
|   (order phones mail-alias net notes)
|   (name-end . 24)
|   (toggle . t))
|  (multi-line
|   (omit creation-date timestamp)
|   (toggle . t))
|  (pop-up-multi-line)
|  (full-multi-line))
| 
| [back]
`----

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