From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Anyone knows how to do dvd/book collection management in Emacs? Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:49:14 +1000 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <874po0pulx.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175405868 5499 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2007 05:37:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 05:37:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 01 07:37:41 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HXsl2-0004Nv-3r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Apr 2007 07:37:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HXsnt-00079f-UT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:40:37 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!sn-xt-sjc-03!sn-xt-sjc-07!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:57ormqLzKbdThbe5SrbzM+180Hs= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 62 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:146730 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:42335 Archived-At: Chris McMahan writes: > You might want to take a look at the Emacs Database Package edb. > > It's not been maintained for some time, but it might prove helpful > You can find it at > http://pag.csail.mit.edu/~mernst/software/edb/ > > Someone else suggested a plain text file. I can see the value in this, > combined especially with some type of folding program. I've recently > become enthusiastic about a package called allout, which I'm using for > storying lists of all sorts. I'm even combining it with the > jka-compr-ccrypt package to store encrypted files with my passwords in > it. > > You can find out about allout at > http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/AllOut > > - Chris > > CHENG Gao writes: > >> I wanna manage my dvd collection and books in Emacs. Just I got idea how >> to do this. The first thing coming to my mind is ebib >> (http://ebib.sf.net). Just it can only operate on a pre-created bib >> file. I need to grab an existed bib file to use with ebib. >> >> Please shed light on me which app to use or where to grab bib file for >> dvd (movie) and book collections. >> >> TIA, >> >> CHENG Gao BBDB is a contacts database that integrates well with various mail and news reading programs for Emacs. Its not what you want for a DVD collection management app. As mentionned, there is edb (the emacs database) which is fairly easy to use. While it may not be actively maintained, I do rmember seeing some posts from someone who was doing some work on it and I think the Debian version of this package is built from that work. You also have emacs forms, which would allow you to create a quite powerful interface for managing your data. I think it can use either plain files or a berkley style db (but you need to check that). I do seem to remember someone posting a mode to do this to the emacs sources group. Maybe try and find an archive of that group and have a look. Likewise, check out the elisp packages listed on the emacs wiki at www.emacswiki.org. Emacs 22 comes with SES (Simple Emacs Spreadsheet), which you could probably use as well. There is a version of SES you can get for emacs 21 (again, see the emacs wiki)================================================= The other alternative is to use something like bibtex and the emacs bibtex mode to manage your DVD info. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au