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Known Bugs
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  1. `M-TAB' conflicts with ispell.  Workaround: The binding installed
     by the BBDB for address completion/expansion conflicts with that
     used by ispell.  The suggested workarounds are to rebind the ispell
     key (the BBDB binding is not configurable at this time), to
     manually invoke ispell via `M-x', or to not use ispell completion
     functionality in BBDB-enabled message composition buffers. The
     following is an example of such a rebinding, supplied by Kai
     Großjohan:

          (defun my-message-mode-keys ()
            (define-key message-mode-map (kbd "M-TAB") 'bbdb-complete-name))
            (add-hook 'message-mode-hook 'my-message-mode-keys)

  2. BBDB and abbrev expansion is inconsistent.  Workaround: Currently,
     `M-TAB' must be used to expand/complete against BBDB names and net
     addresses, and `TAB' must be used to expand abbrevs (the values in
     the `mail-alias' field).  Unification is planned for a future
     version.

  3. The `*BBDB*' buffer does not always come up when the first article
     in a Gnus Summary Buffer is selected.  Workaround:  Pressing `g'
     to reload the article.  This will cause the `*BBDB*' buffer to be
     displayed.

  4. Expansion will fail when the name to be expanded is a subset of
     the name for another record.  For example, if you have entries for
     `John' and `Johnathan', you will not be able to expand the name
     for `John'.  Workaround:  Use the net address for the subset name
     (`John' in this example).


   It is commonly known that there are no bugs in the BBDB. Bugs found
in defiance of this rule should be submitted to the `bbdb-info' mailing
list (Note: Mailing Lists).  To assist the developers, please include
the version numbers of the various programs used when the bug occurred.
An example report follows.

     BBDB Version:
     Emacs/XEmacs Version:
     Mail/News reader (Gnus, VM, etc) used:
     Bug Description: