>>>>> "AL" == Alex Lancaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AL> I have inconsistencies in ordering of records in my BBDB buffer AL> (which also translates into the same order inconsistencies when I AL> use bbdb-print). >>>>> "TD" == Thomas E Deweese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TD> I notice you use SyncBBDB. That lousy piece of junk is at TD> fault :) Thomas, Yep, actually I kinda figured that out by a process of elimination that it was probably the Palm synching that was causing the problem. ;-) I noticed that all the records that were out of lexical sort order *started* with an entry that was originally entered on the Palm (i.e. by having it "beamed" or entered manually). Then I twigged that SyncBBDB doesn't interact via bbdb (which would correctly insert it), but probably just appends it to the end of the file. TD> The problem is that record sorting in BBDB is configurable so TD> when SyncBBDB creates a new record (or changes an existing one) it TD> doesn't know where it should add (or move) records so it always TD> just sticks them on the end of the .bbdb file (I suppose it could TD> make 99.999% of the population happy by just lexically sorting on TD> names, but it doesn't). Thanks for the info, it's nice to have my intuition confirmed. ;-) Lexically sorting the inserted entry from the Palm into .bbdb would be nice. I wrote a little Python script that reordered the .bbdb file, but it would be better if it was built in. TD> My guess is that a bbdb-resort-database will fix it. TD> Unfortunately this is an undocumented, non-interactive function. TD> I have used successfully it to resort my database occasionally but TD> I really don't know what the potential pitfalls of this function TD> are. I didn't know about this function (not suprising being non-interactive and undocumented), maybe waider could tell us whether it would be safe to use and/or about the potential pitfalls of the function. TD> Does anyone know why this couldn't be made a little more TD> public, or any reason not to use it regularly given brain dead TD> software that sticks things in the BBDB where they don't belong? RW> One of the things in my pile of BBDB hacks and tools is some RW> contributed code for 2.00.06 that does all manner of interactive RW> sorting. It should probably be integrated at some point. It would be nice to use `bbdb-resort-database' from time to time until such time as the code waider mentioned for 2.00.06, above, for more customised sorting, is integrated. Any immediate gotchas with using it? Alex _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
