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

2011-09-26 Thread Carson Chittom
"Roland Winkler" 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 your IT infr

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! no

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 Eric Abrahamsen
On Mon, Sep 26 2011, Roland Winkler wrote: > 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

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

2011-09-25 Thread Roland Winkler
On Sun Sep 25 2011 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I should add: Such a rather substantial change would have rather low > > priority on my current BBDB agenda. Currently, I consider a proper > > BBDB release more important. > > Being able to (more or less) directly edit the *BBDB* buffer would > be grea

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

2011-09-25 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: [PATCH] Better support for organisation-only records

2011-09-25 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> A much fancier solution would be to reimplement bbdb-create from >> scratch by using something like a form to fill, similar to what >> customize is using. > I should add: Such a rather substantial change would have rather low > priority on my current BBDB agenda. Currently, I consider a proper >

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

2011-09-25 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
On Mon, Sep 26 2011, Roland Winkler wrote: > On Sun Sep 25 2011 Roland Winkler wrote: >> A much fancier solution would be to reimplement bbdb-create from >> scratch by using something like a form to fill, similar to what >> customize is using. > > I should add: Such a rather substantial change wou

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

2011-09-25 Thread Roland Winkler
On Sun Sep 25 2011 Roland Winkler wrote: > A much fancier solution would be to reimplement bbdb-create from > scratch by using something like a form to fill, similar to what > customize is using. I should add: Such a rather substantial change would have rather low priority on my current BBDB agend

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

2011-09-25 Thread Roland Winkler
On Sun Sep 25 2011 Leo wrote: > I am fine with anything that allows one to enter organisation-only > records nicely. For example, dividing "Lucky Star Buffet Restaurant" > into firstname and lastname is not nice. We should get rid of that. Any suggestions what to do? It seems that again this is a

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

2011-09-25 Thread Leo
On 2011-09-24 03:27 +0800, Roland Winkler wrote: > When I looked at this once more I thought that this could be > something more people might like to use so that it could become part > of the "BBDB trunk". Namely: > > There could be an optional note field `name-face' similar to > `creation-date' an

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

2011-09-23 Thread Roland Winkler
On Thu Sep 22 2011 Roland Winkler wrote: > It seems to me that something like a note field for the predicate > `person-p' with values natural, artifical, restaurant, bookstore etc > was more to the point here. Then the only thing you need to > customize is the function bbdb-display-name-organizatio

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

2011-09-22 Thread Roland Winkler
On Thu Sep 22 2011 Leo wrote: > It makes a different in displaying records. See: > http://i.imgur.com/0NJt1.png > > Another example is one can list all organization-only records > easily. It seems to me that something like a note field for the predicate `person-p' with values natural, artifical,

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

2011-09-22 Thread Leo
On 2011-09-21 23:11 +0800, Roland Winkler wrote: >> (bbdb-defstruct record >> firstname lastname affix aka organization organization-p phone address mail >> notes cache) >> >> What do you think? > > Maybe, I am just missing a typical application for myself. How could > such an extra predicate be

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

2011-09-21 Thread Roland Winkler
On Wed Sep 21 2011 Leo wrote: > Maybe a cleaner way is to insert a new slot `organisation-p' in the > definition: > > (bbdb-defstruct record > firstname lastname affix aka organization organization-p phone address mail > notes cache) > > What do you think? Maybe, I am just missing a typical ap

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

2011-09-20 Thread Roland Winkler
On Tue Sep 20 2011 Leo wrote: > Better support for organisation-only records. Also fix a bug when > firstname or lastname are nil. Comments welcome ;) For those who did not browse Leo's code: The current BBDB code assumes that a record should have a name so that the record can be identified by t