Brett Presnell writes:
> Leo writes:
>
>> On 2011-04-06 15:22 +0800, Didier Verna wrote:
>>> Not everybody agrees with this necessarily. I'm using BBDB much more
>>> often on my computers than anywhere else and I'm happy to update them
>>> manually from time to time on other devices.
>>
>> Sur
Leo writes:
Nowadays keeping contacts in Emacs is secondary to
keeping it in one's mobile phone.
I disagree.
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On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:22:49 +0200 Reiner Steib
wrote:
RS> On Mon, Apr 04 2011, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>> (unless (featurep 'bbdb3) ; or whatever
>> (defalias 'bbdb-search-organization 'bbdb-company)
>> (defalias 'bbdb-search-name 'bbdb-name))
RS> Please don't do it this way! Gnus users have bee
Leo writes:
> On 2011-04-06 15:22 +0800, Didier Verna wrote:
>> Not everybody agrees with this necessarily. I'm using BBDB much more
>> often on my computers than anywhere else and I'm happy to update them
>> manually from time to time on other devices.
>
> Sure. But these users can still use B
On 2011-04-06 15:22 +0800, Didier Verna wrote:
> Not everybody agrees with this necessarily. I'm using BBDB much more
> often on my computers than anywhere else and I'm happy to update them
> manually from time to time on other devices.
Sure. But these users can still use BBDB the way they inten
On Mon, Apr 04 2011, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> (unless (featurep 'bbdb3) ; or whatever
> (defalias 'bbdb-search-organization 'bbdb-company)
> (defalias 'bbdb-search-name 'bbdb-name))
Please don't do it this way! Gnus users have been bitten by bugs
caused by such aliasing (of `replace-regexp-in-s
Leo wrote:
> Basically I want BBDB to have a standard external format that many
> other programs can use. Nowadays keeping contacts in Emacs is
> secondary to keeping it in one's mobile phone.
Not everybody agrees with this necessarily. I'm using BBDB much more
often on my computers than anywh
On 2011-04-05 21:50 +0800, Roland Winkler wrote:
> What do you have in mind?
>
> I know rather little about vcard beyond that it exists. Over the
> years, I have received maybe two or three emails that had a vcard
> replacing the signature file. It appears kind of useful to have the
> signature fil
"Roland Winkler" wrote:
> However, while I do not know the details of such formats, I expect
> that nonetheless it should not be too difficult to develop some code
> to import / export bbdb records from / into these formats. I believe I
> even once saw some code that allowed the old bbdb to inter
On Tue Apr 5 2011 Leo wrote:
> This is completely a short in the dark.
>
> Perhaps BBDB can support (import/export, or even allow storing entries
> in it directly) 100% one external format (probably vcard or its XML
> derivative). A few years ago when I tried to write an exporter to vcard
> I have
Roland Winkler writes:
> On Mon Apr 4 2011 Leo wrote:
>> I personally think it would be far more productive to worry about
>> backward compatibility later on. For example, we could add a new
>> org-bbdb3 module to org mode and leave the old as it is.
>
> While I do not know any details of how BBD
On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 08:52:27 -0400 Matt Lundin wrote:
ML> I do think it can be productive right now, while development is moving
ML> quickly, to ask whether some of the changes, such as reversing the
ML> parameters of bbdb-split, are necessary, since they are easier to fix
ML> now than they will
On Mon Apr 4 2011 Leo wrote:
> I personally think it would be far more productive to worry about
> backward compatibility later on. For example, we could add a new
> org-bbdb3 module to org mode and leave the old as it is.
While I do not know any details of how BBDB is hooked into /
interfacing or
Leo writes:
> On 2011-04-04 10:31 +0800, Matt Lundin wrote:
>>> When my updates of BBDB were in a pre-alpha stage and I did not yet
>>> have a detailed roadmap where they would take me, I thought that
>>> there was really not much of a point trying to continuously (at each
>>> intermediate stage)
On 2011-04-04 10:31 +0800, Matt Lundin wrote:
>> When my updates of BBDB were in a pre-alpha stage and I did not yet
>> have a detailed roadmap where they would take me, I thought that
>> there was really not much of a point trying to continuously (at each
>> intermediate stage) preserve backward c
"Roland Winkler" writes:
>
> When my updates of BBDB were in a pre-alpha stage and I did not yet
> have a detailed roadmap where they would take me, I thought that
> there was really not much of a point trying to continuously (at each
> intermediate stage) preserve backward compatibility when it w
Uwe Brauer writes:
>>> Regarding Re: BBDB beginners guide?; Johnny adds:
> Here is my setting: (still using 2.35 with Robert Fenks
> extensions)
That's a quite extensive example, thanks for this. I will have to take
some time and play around with the settings and options
Bruno Tavernier writes:
>> Regardless of method, BBDB keeps asking me to add mails! How can I make
>> it stop doing that?
>
> Here is what I use
> | ; Stop showing when updates occur
> | (setq bbdb-message-pop-up nil)
Thanks Bruno, this solves the query popping up! Regarding fine tuning of
the
"Roland Winkler" writes:
Thanks for your reply and effort put in to developing BBDB! Sorry for
the delay in replying, I was tied up with work recently, without
Gnu/Linux access.
Thanks to the help from here, I have now found the solution solved this
by adding the following line to emacs init.el:
>> Regarding Re: BBDB beginners guide?; "Roland Winkler" adds:
> I was just looking at these things once more, and I think that
> Johnny's original request provides a good example for why I did
> these changes. Johnny asked about the variable bbdb-add-mail
>> Regarding Re: BBDB beginners guide?; "Roland Winkler" adds:
> I believe that these things cannot be seen independently. I believe
> that a main reason why BBDB did not evolve anymore for quite some
> time was related to the fact that its code had reached
On Sat Oct 30 2010 Uwe Brauer wrote:
>> and use more meaningful names.
>
> This, in my opinion, is a very bad idea.
> Taste is subjective and once names are chosen they become a
> convention. To break backward compatibility deliberately has
> no benefit I can think off.
I was just looking a
Hi Uwe
I am sorry for the delayed reply.
> First of all I did not mean to attack you, sorry if I have
> caused that impression.
No problem, any feedback is appreciated!
>> From bbdb home page it appears the code did not evolve
>> for a long time (Jan 2007).
>
> That is correct. (Same w
On Fri Oct 29 2010 Johnny wrote:
> I recently discovered Gnus and BBDB with that; found the most recent
> development by Roland on Savannah which I downloaded and installed
> successfully. Now, I am trying to figure out different settings and
> configurations how to use BBDB effectively; are there
>> Regarding Re: BBDB beginners guide?; Bruno Tavernier
>> adds:
Hi Bruno,
> CC: To Roland
> Hello Uwe,
First of all I did not mean to attack you, sorry if I have
caused that impression.
> From bbdb home page it appears the code did not evolve
> for a lon
CC: To Roland
Hello Uwe,
Uwe Brauer writes:
>
> Beg your pardon? I am still using 2.35 and hadn't the time
> to give 3.x a try. The names of the variables are changed,
> but why. I consider this as a *terrible* design
> decision. Why loose the compatibility.
>From bbdb home page it appears the
>> Regarding Re: BBDB beginners guide?; Johnny adds:
> Ok, I have realised that the BBDB 2.35 documentation works ok and using
> 'C-h a', 'C-h v' goes a long way. However, I am trying to make BBDB stop
> asking me to add mail addresses. I found:
&
>> Regarding Re: BBDB beginners guide?; Bruno Tavernier
>> adds:
> Hey Johnny,
> First of all, some variables name have changed between
> the 2.x and 3.x versions.
Beg your pardon? I am still using 2.35 and hadn't the time
to give 3.x a try. The names of
Hey Johnny,
First of all, some variables name have changed between the 2.x and 3.x
versions.
Until a new info file is made, you'll have to look by yourself.
After loading bbdb
,
| describe-variable -> bbdb
`
The name are usually explicit. Note you could probably use the customize
interfa
Ok, I have realised that the BBDB 2.35 documentation works ok and using
'C-h a', 'C-h v' goes a long way. However, I am trying to make BBDB stop
asking me to add mail addresses. I found:
bbdb-add-address(es) in the online documentation and set this to nil or
'never.
I also found:
bbdb-add-mails
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