> * Roland Winkler <jvax...@tah.bet> [2011-04-10 21:09:37 -0500]: > > - 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.
Cool! However, I have a small problem with this feature (and with the printing as well). I started using bbdb about 15 years ago and I accumulated a fairly large .bbdb file. Some records there are not relevant to me all that much (a coworker from 10 years ago), so, on one hand, I do not want to remove the record (or its parts, like address, phone, birthday &c), and, on the other hand, I do not want that record to be printed out or that birthday mentioned in my diary. How about a "current" or "relevant" note which will specify just that - that the record is to be printed and its anniversaries mentioned in the diary? Also, people's e-mail addresses become obsolete every now and then. Removing those addresses is not really an option because they are needed when you read those old messages helpfully archived on gmane.org; but having them complete in the To: field does not make sense either. How about a new notes field (I use old-net) which would do just that: used for matching records against mail messages but not for mail address completion? Thanks! > 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. as I said in another message, old variable names should be marked obsolete. -- Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) on CentOS release 5.5 (Final) X http://pmw.org.il http://palestinefacts.org http://www.memritv.org http://ffii.org http://www.PetitionOnline.com/tap12009/ http://dhimmi.com UNIX is a way of thinking. Windows is a way of not thinking. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/
