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From: Haines Brown <haines@engels.histomat.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Importing data from old bbdb2 to ELPA bbdb3
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:20:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sidcvevf.fsf@engels.histomat.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 84pp8g274t.fsf@gmail.com

Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com> writes:

> Haines Brown <haines@engels.histomat.net> writes:
>
>> I installed ELPA bbdb3, and of course it does not see my ~/.bbdb
>> database.
>
> This is a question of configuration AFAICS.  I have
>
> #v+
> bbdb-file is a variable defined in `bbdb.el'.
> Its value is "~/.bbdb"
> Original value was "~/.emacs.d/bbdb"

I have:

(defcustom bbdb-file (locate-user-emacs-file "bbdb" ".bbdb")

This doesn't indicate path, but I guessed it is ~/.emacs.d/. So I copied
~.bbdb to ~/.emacs.d/bbdb and it works.

Thanks!


      reply	other threads:[~2015-03-10 19:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-10 14:36 Importing data from old bbdb2 to ELPA bbdb3 Haines Brown
2015-03-10 15:40 ` Marco Wahl
2015-03-10 19:20   ` Haines Brown [this message]

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