snarfing unreliable

[jave]

I guess snarfing works as advertized, that is, it is unreliable.

is there some other way to do low-budget snarfing? perhaps just have the cursor on an email address and do thing-at-point or something?

[girzel]

What's most unreliable is parsing large chunks of free-form text and finding field information from it. If you narrow down the focus, it should work okay. Email addresses, in particular, should be okay, so long as you put the region around them fairly tightly. If you've got this:

name@domain.com

And just mark that, ebdb-snarf should do the right thing. Same with:

John Doe name@domain.com

If John Doe is already in the database, EBDB will just offer to add the mail address to the record.

Use the region!

[jave]

okay, i think i got bitten by ";-s" being bound to ebdb-mua-snarf-article, rather than ebdb-snarf

[girzel]

ebdb-mua-snarf-article is currently mostly wishful thinking. At some point in the next few months I will sit down and try to make it work better, and so I'll leave this bug report open. In the meantime, though, you'll have to do it manually, with the region.

[girzel]

@jave If you're running this from github and still interested, give these changes a try -- I hope message snarfing will be a bit more reliable now. I haven't yet flushed the changes to Elpa, tho.

[girzel]

Anyhoo, I'm going to close this one, as I think the general "it doesn't work" problem is resolved. Further bugs can have their own issues.

[jave]

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Anyhoo, I'm going to close this one, as I think the general "it doesn't work" problem is resolved. Further bugs can have their own issues.

Thanks, I'll try it out soonish, but I'm a bit swamped atm.

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