From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Burton Samograd Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Deleting nameless BBDB Entry Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 08:34:04 -0600 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <87bqu4ockj.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87k68wl5y7.fsf@gmail.com> <87u07zgo4r.fsf@gmail.com> <87slnhny1d.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1147358449 6623 80.91.229.2 (11 May 2006 14:40:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 14:40:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 11 16:40:43 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FeCLA-0005sQ-BD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 May 2006 16:40:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FeCL9-0006Qq-RF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 May 2006 10:40:31 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xt-sjc-03!sn-xt-sjc-08!sn-post-02!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:j3FDOdkz63H6bggNGDnKPK3sfeA= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 27 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:139351 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:34974 Archived-At: Phillip Lord writes: >>>>>> "BS" == Burton Samograd writes: > Yes, I know. It's a bit of a worry, but BBDB could do with some > recoding. The user interface hooks are fairly nice and usable, though, > and I suspect its still quite widely used. Perhaps "feature complete" > rather than abandoned is more appropriate. > > I thought that something based around muse (in the same way that > planner mode is) would be quite nice, even if the searching > capabilities left something to be desired. I just found planner a couple of days ago and I have been using it quite a bit, including starting the contact database that I was planning on moving into BBDB from various sources. Planner/wiki is nice because you can make a pretty nice free form tag or header based database with embedded links without having to worry about *any* file format (other than the simple wiki markup in your file), and it works well with external Unix tools if you follow something like the email/usenet message structure format. I'm still in the design process and trying some ideas, but wiki/muse is a really nice place to start that doesn't require any coding to get your data in a ... uh ... base :) -- burton samograd kruhft .at. gmail kruhft.blogspot.com www.myspace.com/kruhft metashell.blogspot.com