From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Raeburn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs as a desktop environment Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 19:57:46 -0400 Message-ID: <6F6B4AF6-B309-4B1E-9126-8F2653C9156A@raeburn.org> References: <87aaebbndz.fsf@lifelogs.com> <09EEF7C6-A715-412D-ABE7-022681CD2E85@raeburn.org> <87mxia1lif.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1306368031 16610 80.91.229.12 (26 May 2011 00:00:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 00:00:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Dev To: Nix Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 26 02:00:27 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QPO00-0003Kv-Vx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 02:00:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44595 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QPO00-00084u-IT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 May 2011 20:00:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:49982) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QPNxW-0001n4-Mp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 May 2011 19:57:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QPNxW-0008Ii-1z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 May 2011 19:57:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-qw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.216.41]:55569) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QPNxV-0008Ib-W0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 May 2011 19:57:50 -0400 Original-Received: by qwa26 with SMTP id 26so157682qwa.0 for ; Wed, 25 May 2011 16:57:48 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.224.33.132 with SMTP id h4mr118915qad.284.1306367868780; Wed, 25 May 2011 16:57:48 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [10.1.12.6] (vpn.permabit.com [204.246.225.2]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f16sm120773qck.21.2011.05.25.16.57.47 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 25 May 2011 16:57:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87mxia1lif.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.216.41 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:139714 Archived-At: On May 25, 2011, at 18:08, Nix wrote: > On 25 May 2011, Ken Raeburn spake thusly: >=20 >> ** address book I don't care about too much, so far, but it'd be a = plus >=20 > This sort of thing is exactly what BBDB is for. You do need an > additional keybinding, though: I'd probably want to use the data (whether by syncing to BBDB or = accessing directly) that's in the Zimbra address book for my account, = though. On my home system, I'd definitely want what's in the Mac Address Book = app, which other software keeps in sync with my phone and laptop. Or at = MIT, maybe what's in the LDAP server with MIT-wide account info. Or, I = expect, a lot of people would want contact lists already maintained in = their Google accounts to be used. Etc. Maybe EUDC has some of what I = want... Ken=