Thank you very much for all the input. So in summary it is on the safe side to use bbdb for a transition period because neither the maintainability of bbdb3 nor org-contacts seem to be ensured.
Dieter PS: I hope future developments will bring forth a stable database solution maintained within Emacs proper. Daimrod <daim...@gmail.com> writes: > joa...@verona.se writes: > >> Daimrod <daim...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> Bastien <b...@altern.org> writes: >>> >>>> Hi Dieter, >>>> >>>> Dieter Wilhelm <die...@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes: >>>> >>>>> What do you advise, what is already usable and what is the way >>>>> ahead, still bbdb or bbdb3 or already org-contacts? >>>> >>>> BBDB is great. org-contacts.el is too slow when you have many >>>> contacts, and it is not really maintained anymore. >>> >>> I've started to use org-contacts.el. I haven't (yet) problem with its >>> speed but I've improved the completion mecanism which prevented me to >>> use it. When I'll finish to document/comment it, I'll post it here. >> >> I would be very interested in having a look. > > See the attached patch files. I still need to need to take into account > what could be after the cursor > vvvvvv ATM I only use this > From: John [cursor]D > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ But I would like to use this > > But it mostly works. > >> I migrated from bbdb to org-contacts, but it turned out to be too slow, >> so now I mostly isearch for the contact I want. >> >> Recently I've bee thinking of trying a strategy where bbdb could act as >> a cache for org-contacts, but I havent tried it yet. It shouldnt be too >> hard I think. org-contacts can generate a list of all contacts, that you >> then iterate and generate the bbdb database from. It might be a useful >> addition in any case. > > I was thinking to add a cache mecanism directly to `org-contacts.el'. It > would load the content of the contacts files the first time into the > appropriate structure and then reread the files only when they changed. > > Moreover, `org-contacts.el' doesn't use the new parser from > `org-element.el' ATM, and using it might improve the performance too. > > > PS: Sorry for the double patch files but the `org-reverse-string' part > hasn't been merged yet and I use it. -- Best wishes H. Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt Germany