[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David S. Goldberg) writes: >>>>>> On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:54:41 +0100, Ronan Waide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> Note that the .bbdb file is a normal emacs file in that it doesn't >> autosave or anything, so you can always revert to the on-disk >> version if you screw things up. > > Right. There's no undo in the bbdb GUI (*BBDB* buffer). When I screw > that up (perhaps by adding a field to the wrong record, or deleting a > record I want to keep), I just kill the buffer, whether I've saved it > or not, switch to the .bbdb buffer and undo to my heart's content. > Save it when it's back to where I want it (it's not *that* unreadable)
I wonder if it would be completely silly to consider putting the BBDB "database" through pretty-printer before saving it to .bbdb? This makes reading it by humans a lot easier and I doubt it would increase its size all THAT much. --Boris ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/