On 2011-09-21 23:11 +0800, Roland Winkler wrote:
>> (bbdb-defstruct record
>>   firstname lastname affix aka organization organization-p phone address mail
>> notes cache)
>> 
>> What do you think?
>
> Maybe, I am just missing a typical application for myself. How could
> such an extra predicate be used? Where will it make a difference?

It makes a different in displaying records. See:
http://i.imgur.com/0NJt1.png

Another example is one can list all organization-only records easily.

>> BTW, I have (setq bbdb-mail-alias-field 'tags) for grouping
>> records.
>
> Maybe I am an old-fashioned person. I have quite a few records
> without an email address. Anyway I consider the organization field a
> rather different thing. It can take multiple words per element,
> whereas an alias is an abbreviation for something else.

Note that the added capability to make organisation-only records does
not stop people from using BBDB in the way you describe.

Leo


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