Re: BBDB beginners guide?

2011-04-22 Thread Bernd Wachter
Brett Presnell presn...@stat.ufl.edu writes: Leo sdl@gmail.com 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

Re: BBDB beginners guide?

2011-04-06 Thread Leo
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 file

Re: BBDB beginners guide?

2011-04-06 Thread Leo
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 intend

Re: BBDB beginners guide?

2011-04-06 Thread Brett Presnell
Leo sdl@gmail.com 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

BBDB synchronization (was: BBDB beginners guide?)

2011-04-06 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 05:57:31 -0400 Brett Presnell presn...@stat.ufl.edu wrote: BP Have to agree with this. I'm a long-time user of BBDB, but it has BP always been frustrating (and basically impossible) to try to sync BP information between BBDB and other contact database (essentially only BP

Re: BBDB beginners guide?

2011-04-06 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:22:49 +0200 Reiner Steib reinersteib+gm...@imap.cc 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!

Re: BBDB beginners guide?

2011-04-06 Thread Sean Sieger
Leo sdl@gmail.com writes: Nowadays keeping contacts in Emacs is secondary to keeping it in one's mobile phone. I disagree. -- Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the

Re: BBDB beginners guide?

2011-04-05 Thread Didier Verna
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org 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

Re: BBDB beginners guide?

2011-04-04 Thread Matt Lundin
Leo sdl@gmail.com 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

Re: BBDB beginners guide?

2011-04-04 Thread Roland Winkler
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 org

Re: BBDB beginners guide?

2011-04-04 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 08:52:27 -0400 Matt Lundin m...@imapmail.org 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

Re: BBDB beginners guide?

2011-04-04 Thread Matt Lundin
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org 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

Re: BBDB beginners guide?

2011-04-03 Thread Matt Lundin
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org 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

Re: BBDB beginners guide?

2011-04-03 Thread Leo
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

Re: BBDB beginners guide?

2010-11-04 Thread Johnny
Bruno Tavernier tavernier.br...@gmail.com 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

Re: BBDB beginners guide?

2010-11-03 Thread Uwe Brauer
Regarding Re: BBDB beginners guide?; Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org 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 a stage

Re: BBDB beginners guide?

2010-11-03 Thread Uwe Brauer
Regarding Re: BBDB beginners guide?; Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org 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-mails in BBDB 3.XX

Re: BBDB beginners guide?

2010-10-30 Thread Uwe Brauer
Regarding Re: BBDB beginners guide?; Johnny yggdra...@gmx.co.uk 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: bbdb-add-address(es

Re: BBDB beginners guide?

2010-10-30 Thread Bruno Tavernier
CC: To Roland Hello Uwe, Uwe Brauer o...@mat.ucm.es 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

Re: BBDB beginners guide?

2010-10-30 Thread Uwe Brauer
Regarding Re: BBDB beginners guide?; Bruno Tavernier tavernier.br...@gmail.com 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 long time