Re: [BBDB] ChangeLog 2014-04-12

[Roland W. <wi...@gn...>]

On Sun Apr 13 2014 Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote:
> > > > bbdb-separator-alist defines the separator for almost all fields
> > > > to be ", ".  Only for AKAs it is "; ".  I do not know anymore
> > > > how this came about.  But I find it confusing, and I am thinking
> > > > about changing the default to ", " for all fields.
> > > >
> > > > Thoughts or comments?
> > >
> > > Yes please! That has tripped me up a couple of times, and seems pretty
> > > arbitrary.
> >
> > Done.
> 
> "John Smith; John Smith, Jr; J. Smith, Esquire"

I guess we have no shortage in such examples requiring something
like `;' instead of `,'.  Besides AKAs / names, we may also have

   organization: HAL, Inc.; Smith, Miller & Davis; Company 17

Yet worse

   mail: sm...@ex...; "Smith, John" <sm...@sm...>;
         js...@fo...

The question remains: what are useful defaults for bbdb-separator-alist?
I expect that most users don't worry about such more rare cases.
Having consistent defaults provided by bbdb-separator-alist should
help most users.  In any case, we are talking about a user variable
that everyone can customize to his or her liking.