remote bbdb database

2001-03-24 Thread Sriram Karra
I have the database on machine A, and use it from machine B (another network) with (setq bbdb-file "karra@machineA:.bbdb"). This works for the most part, but there are a few hitches. When I alter the database from machine B, save it, and then try to compose a message from machine A (using

missing (?) bbdb-address-street[123s]

2001-07-07 Thread Sriram Karra
I have bbdb 2.32 installed; I was trying some of the filers, bbdb-to-outlook.el and bbdb-to-netscape.el etc. I quickly ran into the problem of not finding above functions. M-x apropos RET bbdb-address-street RET returns only bbdb-address-street; it says macro is not documented. A source wide

(no subject)

2001-08-04 Thread Sriram Karra
ubsubscribe JanaIv [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/

Re: (no subject)

2001-08-04 Thread Sriram Karra
Sriram Karra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ubsubscribe JanaIv [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry about this mail... argh. -Sriram. -- All's well that ends. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http

fix for bad warning message in bbdb-com.el

2002-02-03 Thread Sriram Karra
Here is a fix for a minor irritance... [ diff against 2.34 ] --- bbdb-com.el.old Sun Feb 3 12:50:20 2002 +++ bbdb-com.el Sun Feb 3 12:42:40 2002 @@ -2368,7 +2368,7 @@ bbdb-define-all-aliases-field) ,)) (if

Re: Announcing ASynK v0.2.0 - directional sync for BBDB to Google and Outlook

2012-05-15 Thread Sriram Karra
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer unham...@fsfe.orgwrote: Sriram ET. karra@gmail.com writes: Would hassle-free two-way sync be possible with that though? BTW, I see http://dmfs.org/carddav/ (proprietary) claims to support two-way sync between Android and a CardDAV

ASynK v0.2.1 - with BBDB-2.x support

2012-05-17 Thread Sriram Karra
I have just pushed release v0.2.1 out. Most of the key changes relate to BBDB, so thought I would make one more announcement. Project Page: http://karra-asynk.appspot.com/ Key changes from the previous release: 1. BBDB file format 6 (used in BBDB versions 2.x) is now supported - which

Announcing ASynK release v0.2.2

2012-06-14 Thread Sriram Karra
I have just pushed out version v0.2.2 - you can get it from the github page: https://github.com/skarra/ASynK/, or visit the project page at: http://karra-asynk.appspot.com/ This will be the last release announcement on this list. I have created a twitter handle @a_synk

Re: Announcing ASynK release v0.2.2

2012-06-15 Thread Sriram Karra
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 3:55 AM, Brett Presnell presn...@stat.ufl.eduwrote: Sam Steingold s...@gnu.org writes: * Sriram Karra xneen@tznvy.pbz [2012-06-15 08:02:37 +0500]: This will be the last release announcement on this list. I have created a twitter handle @a_synk (https

Re: Announcing ASynK release v0.2.2

2012-06-17 Thread Sriram Karra
On Jun 17, 2012 10:21 PM, Sam Steingold s...@gnu.org wrote: Is it really too much effort to send announcements to the bbdb list? It would be off topic for this list. Bbdb is only one of the supported contact databases and most features in the roadmap having nothing at all to do with bbdb.

Why V3 (Was: Re: Fwd: BBDB development shifted from sourceforge to savannah)

2012-06-20 Thread Sriram Karra
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org wrote: PS: I hope that in a few days I can submit my recent work on BBDB. I just need to summarize things in the ChangeLog. Great! Perhaps now is a good time for me to ask this question that's been on my mind for a while: Apart

Announcing ASynK release v0.3.0

2012-07-05 Thread Sriram Karra
9754ba863aa9ac753cae8724c02c3dd2f70d2640 Author: Sriram Karra karra@gmail.com Date: Thu Jul 5 15:12:47 2012 +0530 Bumping up version to v0.3.0 for release commit 3f13dc331e7e758641d066d5f304a463e00a976f Author: Sriram Karra karra@gmail.com Date: Thu Jul 5 15:09:11 2012 +0530 Updates to the project website

Re: Why V3 (Was: Re: Fwd: BBDB development shifted from sourceforge to savannah)

2012-08-10 Thread Sriram Karra
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 2:56 AM, Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org wrote: I would like to capture this question and a summary of your answers as a FAQ on the updated project site on sourceforge. Thanks a lot, that will be helpful I have updated site (http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/) with a

Re: Why V3 (Was: Re: Fwd: BBDB development shifted from sourceforge to savannah)

2012-08-10 Thread Sriram Karra
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org wrote: Thanks a lot for doing this. Two things: - My first name is Roland Ah, indeed :) - I suggest to replace the 2nd paragraph by something like the following I have rewritten along lines you have suggested and

BBDB V3 Home page at: http://www.nongnu.org/bbdb/

2012-08-16 Thread Sriram Karra
Roland, I think it is time we start putting together some stuff for a proper Official BBDB v3 Page. Savannah provides for a project home page at the above URL. I can help set something up, perhaps in some community editable format (tiddlywiki, for e.g.) or something along those lines. What do you

Re: BBDB V3 Home page at: http://www.nongnu.org/bbdb/

2012-09-01 Thread Sriram Karra
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org wrote: On Thu Aug 16 2012 Sriram Karra wrote: I think it is time we start putting together some stuff for a proper Official BBDB v3 Page. Savannah provides for a project home page at the above URL. I can help set something up

Python parsers for lisp expression

2013-01-11 Thread Sriram Karra
I am the author of a program called ASynK (http://karra-asynk.appspot.com/), written in Python. The program provides bi-directional contacts sync functionality across Microsoft Outlook, Google Contacts and Emacs BBDB. For supporting the BBDB format I hacked together a bunch of simple regular

Vector form for strings in ~/.bbdb

2013-01-22 Thread Sriram Karra
In some instances it has been observed that the strings written to the .bbdb file are in vector form containing some fontification metadata. For e.g. in the field position for a contact's first name, where one would normally expect to find a string John one finds, instead, this: #(John 0 4

Re: Vector form for strings in ~/.bbdb

2013-01-24 Thread Sriram Karra
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org wrote: On Wed Jan 23 2013 Sriram Karra wrote: #(John 0 4 (fontified nil)) Could you be a bit more specific? Which version of BBDB are you talking about? BBDB v3 Is it your own experience, or are you talking about

Re: Vector form for strings in ~/.bbdb

2013-01-25 Thread Sriram Karra
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org wrote: But I just went through the code and replaced occurences of (buffer-)substring with (buffer-)substring-no-properties where copying text properties appears not meaningful to me. I'll install this patch shortly. Nice.

Re: Vector form for strings in ~/.bbdb

2013-01-27 Thread Sriram Karra
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org wrote: I thought more about this, and I do not believe anymore that simply replacing calls of (buffer-)substring with (buffer-)substring-no-properties throughout BBDB is a meaningful strategy. - In the future, it could be

Re: [BBDB] ChangeLog 2013-02-02 (avoid text properties more carefully)

2013-02-02 Thread Sriram Karra
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org wrote: Following recent discussions with Sriram on this list, the patch below tries to avoid more carefully that text properties accidentally enter BBDB. Great! I am not familiar with BBDB internals enough to understand the full

Re: [BBDB] ChangeLog 2013-02-02 (avoid text properties more carefully)

2013-02-02 Thread Sriram Karra
On Saturday, February 2, 2013, Roland Winkler wrote Currently I am hesitant to make such changes because it could become difficult to ensure the overall consistency between what happens in different parts of BBDB. I'll keep your patch in mind, but I do not want to promise that I want to add

Re: [BBDB] ChangeLog 2013-02-02 (avoid text properties more carefully)

2013-02-03 Thread Sriram Karra
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 5:54 AM, Sriram Karra karra@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, February 2, 2013, Roland Winkler wrote Currently I am hesitant to make such changes because it could become difficult to ensure the overall consistency between what happens in different parts of BBDB

Re: [BBDB] ChangeLog 2013-02-02 (avoid text properties more carefully)

2013-02-04 Thread Sriram Karra
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org wrote: On Sun Feb 3 2013 Sriram Karra wrote: On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 5:54 AM, Sriram Karra karra@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, February 2, 2013, Roland Winkler wrote Currently I am hesitant to make such changes

Re: bbdb database corrupted

2013-04-08 Thread Sriram Karra
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 1:06 AM, Julien Cubizolles j.cubizol...@free.frwrote: bbdb can't access a lot of my contacts in the .bbdb file anymore. I'm not sure exactly when it started but every time I run bbdb, I get for example: --8---cut here---start-8---

ASynK gets CardDAV support

2013-04-22 Thread Sriram Karra
I have been playing with CardDAV over the past few weeks, and I am happy to report that it has reached a state where I can show it to the world. Here is what you should know before you play with this: - It is only tested with Apple's Calendar Server on my local Mac with a few test BBDB files .

Re: ASynK gets CardDAV support

2013-04-25 Thread Sriram Karra
? -Karra On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Sriram Karra karra@gmail.com wrote: I have been playing with CardDAV over the past few weeks, and I am happy to report that it has reached a state where I can show it to the world

Re: ASynK gets CardDAV support

2013-04-27 Thread Sriram Karra
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 1:52 PM, dsa...@googlemail.com wrote: first thanks carddav support :) i actualy try to implement it in my Debian+emacs+wanderlust+bbdb setup with owncloud as carddav sever asynk.py could not import vobject It looks like you have not cloned the full repository. Try

Re: Installing ASynK possible?

2013-06-05 Thread Sriram Karra
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer unham...@fsfe.orgwrote: I tried making an Arch Linux PKGBUILD for ASynK: http://bpaste.net/show/e8SnRdwCHJMSvapvJiGq/ but it seems either the setup.py there does not work or I'm doing something wrong – should it be possible to install

Re: ASynK gets CardDAV support

2013-08-25 Thread Sriram Karra
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 7:42 PM, googlegro...@khinsen.fastmail.net wrote: Recently I set up a home server running ownCloud, which includes a CardDAV server. I'd like to use that one for synching with BBDB. But

Controlling the behaviour of record merge

2014-03-22 Thread Sriram Karra
When I merge two records in BBDB is there some way I can control what happens to specific fields. For e.g. for records that synced to an external datastore I maintain an ID as part of the record itself. When two such records are merged I want one of them to be dropped and only one retained. Is

[OT] ASynK now supports MS Exchange

2014-05-04 Thread Sriram Karra
If you wanted to keep your BBDB in sync with your office Exchange contacts folders, now you can do it directly without going through Outlook on Windows. I have just finished adding support for MS Exchange to ASynK. Just like with other contact stores you can create a profile with the 'ex' two

Re: BBDB to the-rest-of-the-world

2015-06-29 Thread Sriram Karra
[Sending to list] On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 1:17 AM, Didier Verna did...@xemacs.org wrote: I was using Asynk until recently, but it has never really worked, and now it doesn't work at all (when from 404 on some google page to no module named atom in the latest version). Back in the days, I was

Re: uuid field [was: more than one BBDB file]

2016-10-25 Thread Sriram Karra
On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 4:34 AM, Roland Winkler wrote: This relates to one item that has been on my BBDB todo list > for a long time: add uuid fields to each record so that BBDB can > check more reliably whether two records are "equal". Here uuid > fields will come handy in a

Re: ASynK vs org-vcard

2016-10-22 Thread Sriram Karra
On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 8:31 PM, Saša Janiška wrote: > > > I am happy to look into and debug any issues you may find. > > May I know which server do you use for syncing? ASynK has been known to work with the following CardDAV servers: Apple CalendarServer, Baikal, OwnCloud,

Re: ASynK vs org-vcard

2016-10-22 Thread Sriram Karra
[ + The List this time ] I am the author of ASynK. There are no open issues that I know of related to losing contacts with CardDAV / Baikal. Can you give it a shot? I am happy to look into and debug any issues you may find. On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 3:07 AM, Saša Janiška wrote: