I just submitted a new set of changes for BBDB. First of all, the most noteworthy change is that BBDB has been transfered from CVS to git. So for anonymous checkout, you should now use
git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/bbdb.git I am most grateful to Ted Zlatanov and Barak Pearlmutter who actually did all the work for this. The new git repository contains not only the new bbdb, but as a separate branch it even contains the full history of BBDB. The CVS repository on savannah will not be updated anymore. If hopefully git works for everyone as expected, the CVS repository will be removed soon. What are the changes in the latest code? - I added support for anniversaries. My original idea was to do something very sophisticated based on note handlers. But this turned out to be too complicated to make it a robust scheme (Sorry guys, if anybody was looking forward to this. Let me know if you believe it would really be a great improvement for BBDB that was worth the pain of implementing it...) So now you just define note fields such as `birthday'. If the value of this field is "24 Dec 2000", this will be marked in the emacs diary. See the new file bbdb-anniv.el for details. - I made bbdb-transpose-fields more robust. Now this should also work for any subfields that can be transposed, including even first and last names (if somehow these are in wrong order). - On a more technical side, I separated formatting functions from display functions more consistently. (This was a byproduct of my attempts to define the note handlers.) - Finally, I fixed various bugs and improved the documentation. 2011-04-02 Roland Winkler <wink...@gnu.org> * lisp/bbdb.el (bbdb-utilities-anniv): New customization group. (bbdb-create-hook, bbdb-change-hook) (bbdb-after-change-hook, bbdb-notice-hook) (bbdb-default-separator): Improve doc string. (bbdb-separator-alist): Improve doc string. Include entries for anniversaries. (bbdb-records): Use make-variable-buffer-local. (bbdb-current-field): Do not remove field-name. (bbdb-record-note): Simplified. (bbdb-record-note-n): Removed. (bbdb-record-note-split): New function. (bbdb-record-set-note): Improved documentation. (bbdb-format-note, bbdb-record-format-note): New function. (bbdb-display-text): Renamed from bbdb-format-text. (bbdb-display-list): Renamed from bbdb-format-list. (bbdb-display-name-organization): Renamed from bbdb-format-name-organization. (bbdb-display-record-one-line): Renamed from bbdb-format-record-one-line. Unify text properties. (bbdb-display-record-multi-line): Renamed from bbdb-format-record-multi-line. Unify text properties. (bbdb-display-record-full-multi-line): Renamed from bbdb-format-record-full-multi-line. (bbdb-display-record-pop-up-multi-line): Renamed from bbdb-format-record-pop-up-multi-line. (bbdb-display-record): Renamed from bbdb-format-record. (bbdb-parse-internal, bbdb-parse-frobnicate): Simplified search for first record. (bbdb-delete-record-internal, bbdb-overwrite-record-internal): Disentangle code. * lisp/bbdb-com.el (bbdb-editable): Throw error if *BBDB* buffer is out of sync with database. (bbdb-search): Use suffix -re for all args that are regular expressions. (bbdb-delete-duplicate-mails, bbdb-sort-addresses) (bbdb-sort-phones, bbdb-sort-notes): New optional arg update. (bbdb-record-edit-note): Renamed from bbdb-record-edit-notes. (bbdb-list-transpose, bbdb-ident-point): New functions. (bbdb-transpose-fields): Use them. Make code more robust such that it can be applied to any subfields of the same type. (bbdb-field-equal, bbdb-next-field): Removed (obolete). (bbdb-mail-aliases, bbdb-get-mail-aliases, bbdb-add-mail-alias) (bbdb-browse-url): Use bbdb-record-note-split. * lisp/bbdb-mua.el (bbdb-mua-wrapper): Do not use rmail-select-summary. (bbdb-mua-auto-update): Bug fix. * lisp/bbdb-rmail.el (bbdb-insinuate-rmail) * lisp/bbdb-mhe.el (bbdb-insinuate-mh): Bind to bbdb-mua-edit-notes-sender. * lisp/bbdb-vm.el (bbdb/vm-auto-folder, bbdb/vm-virtual-folder) (bbdb/vm-auto-add-label): Use bbdb-record-note-split. * lisp/bbdb-print.el (bbdb-print-omit-fields): Remove `omit'. * lisp/bbdb-anniv.el: New file. * lisp/Makefile: Honor lisp/bbdb-anniv.el. BBDB is avaiable at http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/bbdb.git To check it out, use git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/bbdb.git ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/