On Mo, Apr 08, 2013 at 07:47:52 -0500, Robert Goldman wrote: > Michael Strey wrote:
[...] > > What about integrating these few functions into org-contacts? > > I am very reluctant to do this. > > I don't use org-contacts at all, but I *do* like to have phone numbers > in my TODO items. Actually, I do not use org-contacts either but I use an org file as contact data base that follows the conventions defined in org-contacts. Nevertheless, I would like to be able to use some of the newer functions of org-contacts, namely the VCard export. Currently org-phone.el as well as my org-dial.el are incompatible with org-contacts. The only idea behind my proposal was to make the contributors of both packages aware of each other. > I think we can get an appropriate combination by having org-phone be > free-standing, and simply let the org-contacts user adopt them if s/he > likes. Yes, of course, with some persuading. > Related question: if the org-contact entries are *known* to be phone > numbers (keyed by the field), why not automagically treat those values > as phone numbers, instead of requiring them to be phone links (which add > cruft to the files)? And similarly for EMAIL. > > I.e., why not simply have: > > #+BEGIN_SRC org > * Surname, Name > :PROPERTIES: > :EMAIL: f...@bar.com > :PHONE: +49 351 4129535; +49 176 6626196 > :END: > #+END_SRC > ? That would be convenient indeed. But considering the given syntax rules for links in org-mode, I'm not sure whether I really would like it. Too much magic can be confusing. Moreover that would create a dependency between org-contacts and org-phone. Org-contacts would require org-phone in order to work as intended, thus creating a strong argument for my proposal of merging both packages. Regards -- Michael Strey www.strey.biz