On Sun Jan 27 2013 Sriram Karra wrote: > (a) The "True Origin" of the text is not known (I mean, it is either from a > minibuffer, or a MUA, but could conceivably be a script or whatever). The > properties that come with a piece of text today come with whatever that > property means at the point of origin. BBDB makes no promises to retain or > return such properties.
Right now, I can only think of one way for deliberately introducing text properties into BBDB in a meaningful way: There would have to be some BBDB command for that. But I have not thought about details. (If someone has a "permanent external feeding trough" for BBDB that uses text properties in a predictable way, it could be another thing.) Yet first of all, right now there is no context coming to my mind where having such a feature was an improvement of some kind. > Yet all the text processing in between the grabbing of text > strings and adding them to the database should preserve text > properties. > > Makes a lot of sense. And we could do all this even before we come > up with any real use of having text properties in the database, > making it more flexible but keeping the database format more > predictable for those who desire it to be so. Exactly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
