Re: (require 'bbdb) mad at me

APA> Then you're ready to M-x customize-group RET bbdb RET and APA> save your customizations. jam> Hmm... All that left me with is jam> (custom-set-variables) jam> (custom-set-faces) jam> in a new ~/.emacs after starting with -vanilla. Oops. I did not realize that it was necessary to save separately from each customize buffer. There were no complaints, but nothing useful, from a XEmacs using just (require 'bbdb) (bbdb-initialize 'mh-e) (custom-set-variables '(bbdb-... but when I combined that with the bulk of the .emacs.new that I'm working on it was back to "Lisp nesting exceeds ..." failures. Now I got a semblance of a working XEmacs with the require and bbdb-initialize at the very beginning and the custom-set-variables at the end. Kinky, no? I'm unclear how to get stuff into the custom-set-variables right. Besides the bbdb-auto-notes-alist I have trouble with bbdb-user-mail-names. When I pasted (concat "\\b" "\\(jam＠.*jamux\\.com\\)\\|" "\\(jam＠.*jamux\\.org\\)\\|" "\\(jam＠.*tux\\.org\\)\\|" &quot;\\(jam(a)acm\\.org\\)\\|&quot; "\\(jam＠.*mnsinc\\.com\\)\\|" "\\(jam＠.*intelisys\\.com\\)\\|" &quot;\\(john\\.a\\.martin(a)linux\\.org\\)\\|&quot; &quot;\\(j\\.a\\.martin(a)ieee\\.org\\)\\b&quot;)) into customize the stuff put to my .emacs had more "\\" than you could shake a stick at. (No, I don't have a copy at hand.) jam> Well, you induced me to wade through a lot of customize hokus jam> pokus. That was educational. :-) However, I failed to dope jam> out how to enter something like the following into Bbdb Auto jam> Notes Alist what with all the protect you from yourself stuff jam> -------------- cut here ---->8 ---< head jam> (setq bbdb-auto-notes-alist jam> (list jam> (list "Organization" (list ".*" 'company 0)))) jam> (add-to-list 'bbdb-auto-notes-alist jam> (list "x-face" jam> (list (concat "[ \t\n]*\\([^ \t\n]*\\)" jam> "\\([ \t\n]+\\([^ jam> \t\n]+\\)\\)?" "\\([ jam> \t\n]+\\([^ \t\n]+\\)\\)?" jam> "\\([ \t\n]+\\([^ jam> \t\n]+\\)\\)?" ) jam> 'face "\\1\\3\\5\\7"))) jam> (add-to-list 'bbdb-auto-notes-alist jam> (list "newsgroups" (list ".*" 'newsgroups 0))) jam> (add-to-list 'bbdb-auto-notes-alist jam> (list "Sender" (list "yfes-l" 'list 0))) jam> (add-to-list 'bbdb-auto-notes-alist jam> (list "X-Mailing-List" (list "<\\(.*\\)＠" 'list jam> 1))) jam> [[ ... ]] jam> ---- 8<------- cut here ----------> tail Owell. Is there any way to get the benefit of all this new fangled stuff while doing things the old fashioned way? :-) Putting the require and initialize at the beginning and custom-set-variables at the end of my .emacs broke some of my supercite conventional customizations. How come such interaction? jam