On Fri Dec 28 2012 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > No one asked for this, but it's something I've wanted for a while, so I > did it, and am attaching a patch if it's of general interest. > > I often add multiple records for different people at the same > organization, and have wanted tab completion when creating/editing the > organization field. This patch creates and populates a > bbdb-organization-list variable on startup, and offers completion from > that list when editing or creating organization fields.
Thanks. Me too, I thought about this. So far, I did not implement this because the organization field holds a list of values. This makes tab completion more tricky if one wants to put multiple entries into this field. Recently the GNU Emacs completion engine went through a major rewrite. But I believe it does not (yet?) offer completion when the result of the completion is supposed to be a list of values. (Stefan, you were largely involved in this rewrite. Can you comment? Thanks.) > Just out of curiosity, has there ever been a plan to make organizations > first-class citizens in the database? What's that? - The organization field holds (a list of) ATTRIBUTES for a record. If a record should refer to a (single) organization instead of a person such that the organization is not the attribute for something else, I suggest that the name of that organization should go into the name field. I think that anything else asks for trouble. (Say, typically multiple records will have the same entries in the organization field for all your friends / colleagues in an organization.) Roland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master HTML5, CSS3, ASP.NET, MVC, AJAX, Knockout.js, Web API and much more. Get web development skills now with LearnDevNow - 350+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122812 _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
