bbdb euronumbers

bbdb euronumbers

[Raimund Kohl-Fuechsle]

Hello,

I don't know if this question is asked here appropriately ... if not,
I am sorry:  I try to get used with bbdb, which seems to be a
wonderful tool!  Now I am to try to insert a phone number, and the
manual says:

       "If you are inserting a new phone-number field, you can control
     whether it is a North American or European phone number by
     providing a prefix argument.  A prefix arg of `^U' means it's to
     be a euronumber, and any other prefix arg means it's to be a a
     structured North American number."

hmmm!  Question here: How am I to produce this "kind of" prefix
Argument for euronumbers?  I tried ^U literally, but that didn't
work.  Any hints on that?

Thank you,

ray

Re: bbdb euronumbers

[Vektor]

Raimund Kohl-Fuechsle <Raimund.Kohl@nabuli.de> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I don't know if this question is asked here appropriately ... if not,
> I am sorry:  I try to get used with bbdb, which seems to be a
> wonderful tool!  Now I am to try to insert a phone number, and the
> manual says:
>
>        "If you are inserting a new phone-number field, you can control
>      whether it is a North American or European phone number by
>      providing a prefix argument.  A prefix arg of `^U' means it's to
>      be a euronumber, and any other prefix arg means it's to be a a
>      structured North American number."
>
> hmmm!  Question here: How am I to produce this "kind of" prefix
> Argument for euronumbers?  I tried ^U literally, but that didn't
> work.  Any hints on that?

try C-q C-u in emacs.

>
> Thank you,
>
> ray
>
>

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Re: bbdb euronumbers

[Kai Grossjohann]

Raimund Kohl-Fuechsle <Raimund.Kohl@nabuli.de> writes:

> hmmm!  Question here: How am I to produce this "kind of" prefix
> Argument for euronumbers?  I tried ^U literally, but that didn't
> work.  Any hints on that?

Well, ^U means the same as C-u: hold the ctrl key, then hit u.

Kai

Re: bbdb euronumbers

[Ekkehard Görlach]

I have "customized" the variable bbdb-north-american-phone-numbers-p
to nil. Now phone numbers like +1 213 457 8765 or +49 69 3129871 are
accepted. 

Ekkehard

Re: bbdb euronumbers

[ray]

> > hmmm!  Question here: How am I to produce this "kind of" prefix
> > Argument for euronumbers?  I tried ^U literally, but that didn't
> > work.  Any hints on that?
> 
> try C-q C-u in emacs.

Ok, C-q C-u produces ^U ... but the phonenumber will be rejected
... e.g.:

^U +496234928995

produces: Error: phonenumber unparsable

I tried tried with and without whitespace, with and without leading
"+49" I tried all combinations: same result.  What am I doing wrong?

ray

Re: bbdb euronumbers

[Raimund Kohl-Fuechsle]

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Ekkehard Görlach <e.goerlach@computer.org> wrote:

> 
> I have "customized" the variable bbdb-north-american-phone-numbers-p
> to nil. Now phone numbers like +1 213 457 8765 or +49 69 3129871 are
> accepted. 

Did set that one ... no change in behaviour.  bbdb seems to want to
truncate a number.  Here the message after trying to set:

"phone: 06234929329"

Arithmetic range error: "truncate", 6234929329.0

ray