From: Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Importing data from old bbdb2 to ELPA bbdb3
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 16:40:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84pp8g274t.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87wq2ovs0y.fsf@engels.histomat.net
Haines Brown <haines@engels.histomat.net> writes:
> I installed ELPA bbdb3, and of course it does not see my ~/.bbdb
> database.
This is a question of configuration AFAICS. I have
#v+
bbdb-file is a variable defined in `bbdb.el'.
Its value is "~/.bbdb"
Original value was "~/.emacs.d/bbdb"
Documentation:
The name of the Insidious Big Brother Database file.
#v-
> I see that in ~/.emacs.d/elpa/bbdb-20140830.2031 there is a
> bbdb.el and bbdb.elc file.
These are most likely program files which are part of the bbdb program.
> Can I simply comment these files and rename my .bbdb to bbdb.el and
> move it to elpa/?
I think you better configure the variable `bbdb-file' instead. (M-x
customize-variable bbdb-file)
> That is, is the format suited to bbdb3?
IIRC there has been a format change from bbdb2 to bbdb3. bbdb3 can read
the bbdb2 format and converts to the bbdb3 format (again IIRC).
I recommend you to save a backup of your bbdb2-file and check if bbdb3
works for you.
Ciao,
Marco
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2015-03-10 14:36 Importing data from old bbdb2 to ELPA bbdb3 Haines Brown
2015-03-10 15:40 ` Marco Wahl [this message]
2015-03-10 19:20 ` Haines Brown
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