On Tue Dec 3 2013 Vincent Geddes wrote:
> One idea would be for `bbdb-create-internal' to accept an `nil'
> name as long as either the org, mail, phone, address, or other
> important xfields are passed. let me know what you think,
Actually, I do not know whether I want to advertise at all the usage
of bbdb-create-internal. I think it is really just a left-over from
bbdb 2, which (to the best of my knowledge) was not used then
either.
This function promises to perform "a fair amount of error-checking
on the passed in values, so it is safe to call this from other
programs." But when is this really helpful? I cannot imagine any
reasonably clean code calling this function that would need such a
feature and benefit from it.
I suggest instead the following: Start with (copied from bbdb-snarf)
(let ((record (make-vector bbdb-record-length nil)))
(bbdb-record-set-cache record (make-vector bbdb-cache-length nil))
Then call bbdb-record-set-field on the fields you want to populate.
(Even the optional arg CHECK of bbdb-record-set-field should really
be needed only during code development.)
Indeed: as bbdb-create-internal does not call bbdb-record-set-field
this is really bogus anyway. I think I'll remove bbdb-create-internal
from BBDB 3, unless someone else comes up with really strong
arguments to keep it.
> Also, does the `affix' field in a bbdb record refer to both
> prefixes and suffixes for a name, or just suffixes? I'm working on
> adding support for bbdb affixes too.
So far, the affix field in BBDB 3 does not have a detailed meaning.
Its value is a list of strings. So I guess it can stand for all
kinds of prefixes, suffixes, academic titles, and what else. But
depending on a user's cultural background, the details may vary
quite a bit what he or she wants to store in this field and I don't
know whether it would make much sense if BBDB tried to establish
some universal rules here.
I don't know how vcards handle such things. Is it possible to map
vcard affixes (one to one) on some general list of affixes as used
by BBDB?
Roland
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