bbdb [2.32] first-impressions: s key: instead of saying "BBDB not saved", do like gnus: "(No changes need to be saved)". have a novice mode on by default that will give examples of what to type when entering data via bbdb-create. [I expected to be prompted with "e-mail address:", "website: http://www."; ... ] "Phone Location (home, work...) "Address description" is most confusing, so add example: (home, work...) with TAB completion. Also even though one is prompted for Net... Phone... that distinction isn't enforced as we see it in *BBDB* Bind SPC to page thru the *BBDB* buffer, DEL to page back remove regional bias in variable names: instead of bbdb-north-american-phone-numbers-p have (defvar phone-numbers-type 'north-american) Zip code rename to Postal code... I can get to the bbdb info node via "i", but C-h i has trouble seeing it from node top... this is due to no "dir" file... [oh, already in TODO:] Doc says `bbdb-default-area-code' The default area code to use when prompting for a new phone number. Default: 415. This must be a number, not a string. Oh great, so I can forget about (setq bbdb-default-area-code 04) the closest I will get is "(004)". By the way, the default is not 415 anymore. Why not allow strings also? I want "04", somebody might want "*7" ... undo should work to restore a deleted record, say. Taiwan postal codes can look like 42344. One would hope bbdb could be made not to then assume I live in the USA... They can also look like just 423, or 423-44. docs says: Basically this means that when you type space after `M-x bbdb', your window configuration will be restored to what it Huh? does he mean "q", not "space"? One feels intimidated by the interface and would want to edit directly the *BBDB* buffer... a command should enable that... ending with, say C-c C-c I hope there is a command to micro-print the database to make a portable little black book. OK, P looks good except I don't know how to configure TeX for Chinese, so I will use pr --columns=2 but there should be a better command that at least adds "------" seperators and pretty prints just like the tex one, but to a plain text file, which would then be usable in places where TeX is not... Let's say there's a disk crash and one saved the *BBDB* buffer to a text file, but lost the .bbdb file. One would hope there was a command to restore a .bbdb from a *BBDB* snapshot. Or, your friend emails you what he sees in his *BBDB* but then goes on vacation... you want to merge this image into your .bbdb ... hope there is a way ready made. One hopes the snarf command can snarf *BBDB*... the TODO says: * Should have a command for merging together two divergent copies of a `.bbdb' file (in case you read mail on one machine and news on another, for instance.) maybe at least one could "import" and merge a *BBDB* buffer... docs have an empty "Example BBDB record" -- http://www.geocities.com/jidanni Tel886-4-25854780 �n���� _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
