Roland Winkler <wink...@gnu.org> writes: > On Sat, Nov 21 2015, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >> I might add to this a clearer API for the "noticing" functionality of >> BBDB -- ie, make it easier to write the hooks for "doing things to >> BBDB records when you receive mails from/compose mails to those >> records. > > I didn't see your posting on the bbdb mailing list. But I am replying > only to this list because it appears to me that you are talking about > something internal to bbdb and not related to other packages.
That's odd, I sent it to both, and set the followups-to header to this list, for the same reason you mentioned. > What do you have in mind? What is your (intended) usage scenario that > you are struggling with? I myself hardly use the noticing feature. So > I do not know what might be missing / what can be improved. Noticing records seems to be the main point of interaction between BBDB and the MUA. I've used it to add links to recent messages to a BBDB record field, and I'm also working on a feature to add Org-mode tags to BBDB records. It's hard to know whether the API should be improved, or just the documentation. The docs for `bbdb-notice-record-hook' are fairly clear, but I've found `bbdb-auto-notes-rules' pretty hard to understand. The two things seem almost redundant together -- by the time you've figured out how to use the auto notes rules, you might as well just write a hook and set the fields manually. I'd be curious to know how many people have actually made use of either the hook or the rules. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
