Re: bbdb/package-show-sender command disappeared

[Sebastian Tennant]

Quoth Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>:
> On Fri, Feb 08 2008, Sebastian Tennant wrote:
>> For some reason the bbdb/package-show-sender command (useful for adding
>> people to the BBDB) is no longer defined in Gnus' Summary buffer.  It
>> used to be bound to ':'.
>
> Works for me: `: runs the command bbdb/gnus-show-sender'
>
> (gnus-version)
> "No Gnus v0.7"
>
> (bbdb-version)
> "BBDB version 2.35 ($Date: 2006/03/29 22:46:33 $)"
>
>>   (bbdb-initialize 'gnus 'message)
>
> Same here.

Thanks for the spur...

Turns out the order in which bbdb and gnus (or message, not sure which)
are loaded is important.

I have my call to bbdb-initialize in an (eval-after-load "bbdb" ...)
form, and unless I use bbdb for some standalone purpose (which I rarely
do) bbdb is only loaded when gnus (or message) have need it of, by which
time, it appears, it's too late.

A simple (require 'bbdb) in my ~/.emacs, ensuring bbdb is always loaded
before gnus, has cured the problem.

Sebastian