Hi! I expected to be able to M-x customize-variable RET bbdb-canonicalize-net-hook RET which did work. However, when calling the so-modified bbdb-canonicalize-net-hook, bbdb throws an error, because it tries to handle it as a single function, not as a list of functions. Either The definition (defcustom bbdb-canonicalize-net-hook nil <lines deleted by Adrian> :group 'bbdb-hooks :type 'hook) needs to change type to 'function, and the variable be renamed to bbdb-canonicalize-net-funcition. or bbdb-canonicalize-net-hook needs to be handled as a list of functions. Oh, BTW, :type 'hook does not appear to be documented in custom.texi of my XEmacs. Well, another bug? Best regards, Adrian Emacs : XEmacs 21.4 (patch 4) "Artificial Intelligence (candidate 3)" [Lucid] (i586-pc-win32) of Fri Jul 27 2001 on D5DC120J Package: BBDB 2.32 current state: ============== (setq bbdb-version-date "$Date: 2001/07/02 09:40:31 $" bbdb-file-format 6 bbdb-no-duplicates-p nil bbdb-after-change-hook '(bbdb/gnus-score-invalidate-alist) bbdb-after-read-db-hook nil bbdb-always-add-addresses nil bbdb-auto-revert-p nil bbdb-canonicalize-net-hook '(lambda (addr) (cond ((string-match "\\`\\([^0-9]+\\)\\(-dated-[^＠]+\\|-[0-9]+\\|\\+[^＠]+\\.[^＠]+\\)\\(＠.*\\)\\'" addr) (concat (substring addr (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1)) (substring addr (match-beginning 3) (match-end 3)) ) ) (t addr)) ) bbdb-canonicalize-redundant-nets-p t bbdb-case-fold-search t bbdb-change-hook 'bbdb-timestamp-hook bbdb-completion-display-record t bbdb-completion-type nil bbdb-create-hook 'bbdb-creation-date-hook bbdb-default-area-code nil bbdb-define-all-aliases-field 'mail-alias bbdb-dial-local-prefix nil bbdb-dial-local-prefix-alist '(((if bbdb-default-area-code (format "(%03d)" bbdb-default-area-code) "") "") ) bbdb-dial-long-distance-prefix nil bbdb-dwim-net-address-allow-redundancy t bbdb-electric-p nil bbdb-elided-display nil bbdb-file "~/.bbdb" bbdb-file-remote nil bbdb-file-remote-save-always t bbdb-finger-host-field 'finger-host bbdb-gui t bbdb-hashtable-size 1021 bbdb-info-file nil bbdb-initialize-hook nil bbdb-list-hook '(bbdb-fontify-buffer) bbdb-load-hook nil bbdb-message-caching-enabled t bbdb-message-marker-field 'mark-char bbdb-mode-hook nil bbdb-new-nets-always-primary nil bbdb-north-american-phone-numbers-p nil bbdb-notes-default-separator ", " bbdb-notes-sort-order '((notes . 0) (www . 1) (ftp . 2) (gopher . 3) (telnet . 4) (mail-alias . 5) (mail-folder . 6) (lpr . 7) (creation-date . 1000) (timestamp . 1001)) bbdb-notice-auto-save-file nil bbdb-notice-hook nil bbdb-offer-save t bbdb-pop-up-elided-display-fields nil bbdb-pop-up-elided-display-name-end 48 bbdb-pop-up-target-lines 5 bbdb-quiet-about-name-mismatches nil bbdb-readonly-p nil bbdb-refile-notes-default-merge-function 'bbdb-refile-notes-default-merge-function bbdb-refile-notes-generate-alist '((creation-date . bbdb-refile-notes-string-least) (timestamp . bbdb-refile-notes-string-most) ) bbdb-save-db-timeout nil bbdb-send-mail-style 'message bbdb-silent-running nil bbdb-use-alternate-names t bbdb-user-mail-names "\\bAichnerAd\\b" bbdb-write-file-hooks '(bbdb-write-file-hook-fn) bbdb/gnus-lines-and-from-length 18 bbdb/gnus-split-crosspost-default nil bbdb/gnus-split-default-group "mail.misc" bbdb/gnus-split-myaddr-regexp &quot;^AichnerAd$\\|^AichnerAd(a)\\([-a-z0-9]+\\.\\)*ecf.teradyne.com$&quot; bbdb/gnus-split-nomatch-function nil bbdb/gnus-split-private-field 'gnus-private bbdb/gnus-split-public-field 'gnus-public bbdb/gnus-summary-mark-known-posters t bbdb/gnus-summary-show-bbdb-names t bbdb/mail-auto-create-p t bbdb/news-auto-create-p nil bbdb/prompt-for-create-p nil bbdb/vm-set-auto-folder-alist-field 'vm-folder features '(info find-func hyper-apropos flow-fill timer smtpmail rfc2104 starttls time-stamp iso-acc bbdb-gui lazy-lock gnus-picon w3-forms w3-display advice advice-preload w3-imap w3-widget css w3-mouse w3-vars w3-cus w3-keyword url mm mule-sysdp url-parse url-vars sort smiley annotations gnus-cite gnus-async gnus-dup gnus-ml gnus-msg gnus-art mm-uu mm-view mailcrypt rfc822 nndraft nnmh nndoc gnus-sum gnus-cache nnfolder pop3 env passwd nnml gnus-group gnus-undo bbdb-gnus gnus-demon nnmail mail-source format-spec nntp nnoo gnus-setup gnus-start gnus-range gnus-spec gnus-int gnus-win gnus gnus-ems gnus-xmas wid-edit message messagexmas mml mm-decode mm-encode mailcap mm-bodies uudecode mail-parse rfc2045 rfc2231 rfc2047 qp ietf-drums mailheader gnus-util time-date parse-time nnheader nnheaderxm mail-utils mm-util mail-prsvr desktop font disp-table blink-cursor paren blink-paren patch-to-cvs-commit-command clearcase reporter vc-hooks efs-dired efs-netrc efs-defun comint ring efs time redo sh-script skeleton executable bbdb-com bbdb-sc bbdb timezone mail-abbrevs sendmail supercite mail-extr regi jka-compr alist scroll-in-place rsz-minibuf func-menu font-lock filladapt crypt crypt++ completer efs-cu efs-x19\.15 efs-fnh efs-ovwrt efs-auto cus-face dired-faces dired-xemacs dired pending-del zenirc-autoloads xslt-process-autoloads xemacs-devel-autoloads xemacs-base-autoloads whois-complete-autoloads w3-autoloads vm-autoloads viper-autoloads view-process-autoloads vhdl-autoloads vc-autoloads vb-mode-autoloads tpu-autoloads tooltalk-autoloads time-autoloads textools-autoloads text-modes-autoloads texinfo-autoloads supercite-autoloads strokes-autoloads speedbar-autoloads sounds-wav-autoloads sounds-au-autoloads slider-autoloads sh-script-autoloads sgml-autoloads semantic-autoloads scheme-autoloads rmail-autoloads reftex-autoloads pxp-autoloads psgml-autoloads ps-print-nomule-autoloads prog-modes-autoloads pcl-cvs-autoloads pc-autoloads os-utils-autoloads misc-games-autoloads mine-autoloads mh-e-autoloads mew-autoloads mailcrypt-autoloads mail-lib-autoloads ispell-autoloads ilisp-autoloads igrep-autoloads idlwave-autoloads hm--html-menus-autoloads gnus-autoloads gnats-autoloads games-autoloads fsf-compat-autoloads frame-icon-autoloads forms-autoloads footnote-autoloads eudc-autoloads eterm-autoloads emerge-autoloads elib-autoloads eicq-autoloads efs-autoloads edt-autoloads edit-utils-autoloads ediff-autoloads edebug-autoloads dired-autoloads debug-autoloads crisp-autoloads cookie-autoloads cc-mode-autoloads calendar-autoloads calc-autoloads cadence-autoloads c-support-autoloads build-autoloads bbdb-autoloads bat-mode-autoloads auctex-autoloads atp-mode-autoloads apel-autoloads ada-autoloads TerIDL-autoloads bbdb-pilot-autoloads net-utils-autoloads lisp-autoloads loadhist auto-show fontl-hooks code-cmds gutter-items menubar-items x-menubar dragdrop mode-motion mouse itimer auto-save lisp-mode easymenu iso8859-1 page buff-menu lib-complete help-nomule cus-file derived frame text-props obsolete cus-start custom widget cl-extra mini-cl cl cl-19 packages backquote very-early-lisp file-coding mswindows-scrollbars mswindows toolbar native-sound scrollbar network-streams subprocesses menu-accelerator-support menubar md5 xemacs gutter tiff png gif jpeg xface xpm xbm lisp-float-type windows-nt dragdrop-api dialog devices window-system base64) ) -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/