[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



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