Hi all, I suppose I must be one of the very few using BBDB with erc, because by default the erc-bbdb package exhibits a veryu annoying behavior I find hard to believe people like: * When showing the BBDB popup, the BBDB buffer is electric which means that it captures the keyboard "focus" and basically prevents updates to the channel buffer. * Specially annoying when a lot of the people in the channel are known to you and you are joining. The patch adds a customize option to control this behavior (I think off is the right default, but feel free to put it as t for backwards compatibility.)

With erc-bbdb-electric-p set to nil, the bbdb buffer is no longer electric and it does not block progress. Thanks, Nelson Index: erc-bbdb.el =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/packages/xemacs-packages/erc/erc-bbdb.el,v retrieving revision 1.7 diff -u -d -u -b -r1.7 erc-bbdb.el --- erc-bbdb.el 2006/02/19 12:57:27 1.7 +++ erc-bbdb.el 2006/03/16 04:53:14 ＠＠ -113,6 +113,11 ＠＠ :group 'erc-bbdb :type 'boolean) +(defcustom erc-bbdb-electric-p nil + "If t, BBDB popup buffer is electric." + :group 'erc-bbdb + :type 'boolean) + (defun erc-bbdb-search-name-and-create (create-p name nick finger-host silent) (let* ((ircnick (cons erc-bbdb-irc-nick-field (concat "^" (regexp-quote nick)))) ＠＠ -133,7 +138,8 ＠＠ record))) (defun erc-bbdb-show-entry (record channel proc) - (let ((bbdb-display-layout (bbdb-grovel-elide-arg erc-bbdb-elide-display))) + (let ((bbdb-display-layout (bbdb-grovel-elide-arg erc-bbdb-elide-display)) + (bbdb-electric-p erc-bbdb-electric-p)) (when (and record (or (eq erc-bbdb-popup-type t) (and (eq erc-bbdb-popup-type 'visible) (and channel