Re: sharing data between bbdb records

2013-05-28 Thread Philip Hudson
On 27 May, 2013, at 4:54 pm, Roland Winkler wrote: On Mon May 27 2013 Gijs Hillenius wrote: Very happy user of bbdb, but one with a one long-standing question. Consider two or three records, that share some information, Me too, I have been annoyed by this. Yet you did not miss anything.

Re: sharing data between bbdb records

2013-05-28 Thread Roland Winkler
On Tue May 28 2013 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: Could the organization field, instead of being a string, actually be a link (or a search-string) to a separate record? Then when you display an individual record that links to that organization, there could be a display-only, virtual work address shown

Re: sharing data between bbdb records

2013-05-28 Thread Roland Winkler
On Tue May 28 2013 Philip Hudson wrote: No idea if this is feasible, but the thought occurs to me: how about using the auto-complete framework? Or pcomplete? If one needs to update an address that occurs multiple times, it would be nice if this can be done for all records simultaneously.

Re: sharing data between bbdb records

2013-05-28 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes: On Tue May 28 2013 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: Could the organization field, instead of being a string, actually be a link (or a search-string) to a separate record? Then when you display an individual record that links to that organization, there could be a

Re: sharing data between bbdb records

2013-05-28 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes: On Tue May 28 2013 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: I once half-jokingly suggested rewriting BBDB to use the EIEIO object system. The joke part was only because it would be a hell of a lot of work: actually I think an OO-type system is pretty much ideal for what

Re: ASynK gets CardDAV support

2013-05-28 Thread Kevin Brubeck Unhammer
googlegro...@khinsen.fastmail.net writes: CardDAV support sounds great, and I will try it as soon as I find some time. The biggest problem for me is that I have a single CardDAV account (at fruux.com), which I rely on for everyday work. Does anyone know of a service that provides free CardDAV

Re: sharing data between bbdb records

2013-05-28 Thread Roland Winkler
On Tue May 28 2013 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: Yup, I think changes would be confined to bbdb.el. ...and bbdb-com.el The latter contains the user interface for creating and editing BBDB records, and this is possibly the trickier part. Having fancy editing and printing functions is one thing. But