> Now, I know this won't give me synchronization. Unfortunately I think > that's a lost cause currently, I just want a way to find a contact. > > Fast finding on the CLI? > > awk 'BEGIN {RS="\n\n\\* " ; IGNORECASE=1} /chief/ {print $0}' Contacts.org > > I can even adapt that to give me emails for mutt. > > Yes there's no way to push this to CSV and back, but I could write > something in an hour in Perl to do so. (feature idea! Export > column-view as csv...) > > I thought I'd post here for feedback prior to committing my contacts > to this format.
Looking into this some more, export is really easy. I can just use a dynamic block to store column view in whatever format I choose, and export then search & replace ',' for '|'. That is minimal effort! Sparse searches in column view, hierarchy organization, etc. I'm trying to find a problem here. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Russell Adams rlad...@adamsinfoserv.com PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint: 1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode