Re: [PATCH] Better support for organisation-only records

2011-09-26 Thread Roland Winkler
On Mon Sep 26 2011 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: Why not have separate minibuffer prompts for surname and given name? Many of my records are for Chinese people. Right now I can't be bothered separating out the characters for surname and given name, and usually they all get lumped into whatever

Re: exporting records

2011-09-26 Thread Roland Winkler
On Mon Sep 26 2011 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: While we're on the subject of features that won't be considered until version 3 is finished, if ever I've been writing a small function to export BBDB records according to an arbitrary text template. I'm running up against the problem that there

Re: exporting records

2011-09-26 Thread Roland Winkler
On Mon Sep 26 2011 Roland Winkler wrote: Also, does this seem like a good idea in general? I know that we're in some kind of feature freeze, but this would also be relatively distinct from the rest of the codebase, and if it's an attractive idea I'd be happy to chew on it in my spare time.

Re: exporting records

2011-09-26 Thread Leo
It might be desirable to export a record to a canonical sexp then we can further write the sexp to any other formats such as vcards, xmls etc. For example, the sexp can be a list of elements of the form: (field parameters value) Leo

Re: exporting records

2011-09-26 Thread Roland Winkler
On Mon Sep 26 2011 Leo wrote: It might be desirable to export a record to a canonical sexp then we can further write the sexp to any other formats such as vcards, xmls etc. For example, the sexp can be a list of elements of the form: (field parameters value) Maybe you can explain in a

Re: exporting records

2011-09-26 Thread Leo
On 2011-09-26 17:50 +0800, Roland Winkler wrote: On Mon Sep 26 2011 Leo wrote: It might be desirable to export a record to a canonical sexp then we can further write the sexp to any other formats such as vcards, xmls etc. For example, the sexp can be a list of elements of the form:

Re: [PATCH] Better support for organisation-only records

2011-09-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
Direct editing maybe similar to wdired-mode could be, indeed, a great thing. -- Yet as I said: I'll postpone such dreams till BBDB 3 has been released. No! I want it now! [...starts rolling on the floor screaming...] Now! now! now! now! now!! Stefan Damn adults!

Re: [PATCH] Better support for organisation-only records

2011-09-26 Thread Roland Winkler
On Mon Sep 26 2011 Stefan Monnier wrote: Direct editing maybe similar to wdired-mode could be, indeed, a great thing. -- Yet as I said: I'll postpone such dreams till BBDB 3 has been released. No! I want it now! [...starts rolling on the floor screaming...] Now! now! now! now! now!!

Re: [PATCH] Better support for organisation-only records

2011-09-26 Thread Carson Chittom
Roland Winkler wink...@gnu.org writes: PS: Wait! You say you have dreams that cannot be coded in elisp?? I hear some folks get divide-by-zero errors. -- http://www.wistly.net -- All the data continuously generated in