Re: [BBDB] ChangeLog 2014-05-06

2014-06-12 Thread Barak A. Pearlmutter
I'd check for the function. Seems more robust. (E.g., if someone forks an older version and updates the date string, or if the function is renamed or removed in the future.) If there's a bug you need to check for you can always complicate the guard later. --Barak.

Re: [BBDB] ChangeLog 2014-05-06

2014-06-12 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Barak A. Pearlmutter ba...@cs.nuim.ie writes: I'd check for the function. Seems more robust. (E.g., if someone forks an older version and updates the date string, or if the function is renamed or removed in the future.) If there's a bug you need to check for you can always complicate the

Re: [BBDB] ChangeLog 2014-05-06

2014-06-12 Thread Roland Winkler
On Thu Jun 12 2014 Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: I'd check for the function. Seems more robust. Agreed. -- HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data

[BBDB] ChangeLog 2014-05-06

2014-05-06 Thread Roland Winkler
(1) BBDB now allows arbitrary lisp expressions as values of xfields. Interactively, you can call bbdb-insert-field or bbdb-edit-field with a prefix arg for this. If the value of an xfield is not a string, it is displayed using the same pretty-printer used by describe-variable.

Re: [BBDB] ChangeLog 2014-05-06

2014-05-06 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes: (1) BBDB now allows arbitrary lisp expressions as values of xfields. Interactively, you can call bbdb-insert-field or bbdb-edit-field with a prefix arg for this. If the value of an xfield is not a string, it is displayed using the same