Re: [Evolution] editing members of a contact list

[Ralf Mardorf <silver bullet zoho com>]

On Fri, 05 Mar 2021 18:22:10 +0100, Ralf Mardorf via evolution-list
wrote:
> On Fri, 2021-03-05 at 08:47 -0800, Brewster Gillett wrote:
> > Running EVO 3.38.4 under Fedora 33
> >
> > I have scoured the help files accompanying the software, and those I
> > could find on the Web, and I cannot find the instructions for editing
> > the individual elements of a contact list. In other words, deleting
> > list members, or changing a list member's email address. Every manual
> > entry I can find stops before discussing that level of granularity.
> >
> > Where can I find this?  
>
> Hi,
>
> first add a contact to an address book, after that add that contact to
> a list. If you want to edit this contact, that is member of a list,
> edit this contact in the address book, so the list gets automagically
> synced with the edited contact of the address book. This at least
> worked for a "foo and bar" test I've done right now with Evolution
> 3.38.4 on Arch Linux.
>
> I can confirm, that after adding somebody to a list, that isn't a
> member of an address book, there seems to be no way to edit this
> contact, other than deleting it and adding it again.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf

PS:

I don't know why you can't delete a list member. If you chose a list in
an address book, there should be a "Remove" button, there's just no
button to edit a list's contact.