On Sun, Jul 06 2014, Sebastian Lipp <bacuh@riseup.net> wrote:

> Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com> writes:
>> Sebastian Lipp <bacuh@riseup.net> writes:
>>>diff --git a/emacs/notmuch-address.el b/emacs/notmuch-address.el
>>>index fa65cd5..ee7b169 100644
>>>--- a/emacs/notmuch-address.el
>>>+++ b/emacs/notmuch-address.el
>>>@@ -113,6 +113,59 @@ to know how address selection is made by default."
>>> (when (notmuch-address-locate-command notmuch-address-command)
>>>   (notmuch-address-message-insinuate))
>>> 
>>>+;; functions to add sender / recipients to BBDB
>>>+
>>>+(defvar bbdb-get-addresses-headers)
>>
>> I think it's good to include an initial value (even an invalid
>> placeholder one, if the real initialization has not happened yet), and a
>> doc string.  C-h f defvar RET will say more about how to do that.
>
> I hope I got that right now. (I've got no real clue of Lisp yet because
> I just recently switched to emacs partly because of notmuch. :)
>
> How about
>
>     (defvar bbdb-get-addresses-headers nil
>       "List of Addresses to import into bbdb")
>
> ?
>
>> (By the way, this isn't a user-customizeable variable, right?  If it
>> were, then `defcustom' would be better than `defvar'.)
>
> As far as I understand it: It's not.

someone(tm) could explain why or why-not this is defvar and not defcustom
(or wice versa) so that I don't have to spend time digging into it

but the bbdb-* looks a bit too generic (goes deep into bbdb "namespace"
in a file not part of bbdb -package)


Tomi