Re: sharing data between bbdb records

2013-05-29 Thread Sam Steingold
> * Roland Winkler [2013-05-27 17:54:08 +0200]: > > On Mon May 27 2013 Gijs Hillenius wrote: >> Very happy user of bbdb, but one with a one long-standing question. >> Consider two or three records, that share some information, > > Me too, I have been annoyed by this. Yet you did not miss anything.

Re: sharing data between bbdb records

2013-05-29 Thread Philip Hudson
On 28 May, 2013, at 9:25 am, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > [Using EIEIO is] still more or less pie-in-the-sky, but I think it > makes a lot of > sense in principle. Project BBDB v4 is born? -- Phil Hudson http://hudson-it.no-ip.biz @UWascalWabbit PGP/GnuPG ID: 0x887

Re: sharing data between bbdb records

2013-05-28 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
"Roland Winkler" writes: > On Tue May 28 2013 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >> Yup, I think changes would be confined to bbdb.el. > > ...and bbdb-com.el > > The latter contains the user interface for creating and editing BBDB > records, and this is possibly the trickier part. Having fancy > editing and

Re: sharing data between bbdb records

2013-05-28 Thread Roland Winkler
On Tue May 28 2013 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > Yup, I think changes would be confined to bbdb.el. ...and bbdb-com.el The latter contains the user interface for creating and editing BBDB records, and this is possibly the trickier part. Having fancy editing and printing functions is one thing. But est

Re: sharing data between bbdb records

2013-05-28 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
"Roland Winkler" writes: > On Tue May 28 2013 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >> I once half-jokingly suggested rewriting BBDB to use the EIEIO object >> system. The joke part was only because it would be a hell of a lot of >> work: actually I think an OO-type system is pretty much ideal for what >> BBDB

Re: sharing data between bbdb records

2013-05-28 Thread Roland Winkler
On Tue May 28 2013 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > I once half-jokingly suggested rewriting BBDB to use the EIEIO object > system. The joke part was only because it would be a hell of a lot of > work: actually I think an OO-type system is pretty much ideal for what > BBDB does. Advantages I can think of:

Re: sharing data between bbdb records

2013-05-28 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Eric Abrahamsen writes: > "Roland Winkler" writes: > >> On Tue May 28 2013 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >>> Could the organization field, instead of being a string, actually be a >>> link (or a search-string) to a separate record? Then when you display an >>> individual record that links to that organ

Re: sharing data between bbdb records

2013-05-28 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
"Roland Winkler" writes: > On Tue May 28 2013 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >> Could the organization field, instead of being a string, actually be a >> link (or a search-string) to a separate record? Then when you display an >> individual record that links to that organization, there could be a >> disp

Re: sharing data between bbdb records

2013-05-28 Thread Roland Winkler
On Tue May 28 2013 Philip Hudson wrote: > No idea if this is feasible, but the thought occurs to me: how about > using the auto-complete framework? Or pcomplete? If one needs to update an address that occurs multiple times, it would be nice if this can be done for all records simultaneously. May

Re: sharing data between bbdb records

2013-05-28 Thread Roland Winkler
On Tue May 28 2013 Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > Could the organization field, instead of being a string, actually be a > link (or a search-string) to a separate record? Then when you display an > individual record that links to that organization, there could be a > display-only, virtual "work address"

Re: sharing data between bbdb records

2013-05-28 Thread Philip Hudson
On 27 May, 2013, at 4:54 pm, Roland Winkler wrote: > On Mon May 27 2013 Gijs Hillenius wrote: >> Very happy user of bbdb, but one with a one long-standing question. >> Consider two or three records, that share some information, > > Me too, I have been annoyed by this. Yet you did not miss anything

Re: sharing data between bbdb records

2013-05-27 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
"Roland Winkler" writes: > On Mon May 27 2013 Gijs Hillenius wrote: >> Very happy user of bbdb, but one with a one long-standing question. >> Consider two or three records, that share some information, > > Me too, I have been annoyed by this. Yet you did not miss anything. > Currently BBDB does n

Re: sharing data between bbdb records

2013-05-27 Thread Roland Winkler
On Mon May 27 2013 Gijs Hillenius wrote: > Very happy user of bbdb, but one with a one long-standing question. > Consider two or three records, that share some information, Me too, I have been annoyed by this. Yet you did not miss anything. Currently BBDB does not allow that multiple records share

sharing data between bbdb records

2013-05-27 Thread Gijs Hillenius
Hello! Very happy user of bbdb, but one with a one long-standing question. Consider two or three records, that share some information, for example the address. Bob Creature mail: bob.creature@company address (office): some address//zip//city/country Alice Individual mail