From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thierry Volpiatto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs as a desktop environment Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 10:33:57 +0200 Message-ID: <8762oxlv2i.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87aaebbndz.fsf@lifelogs.com> <09EEF7C6-A715-412D-ABE7-022681CD2E85@raeburn.org> <87mxia1lif.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <6F6B4AF6-B309-4B1E-9126-8F2653C9156A@raeburn.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1306398860 6871 80.91.229.12 (26 May 2011 08:34:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 08:34:20 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 26 10:34:17 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 1QPW1H-0000W5-5M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 10:34:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49918 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QPW1G-0006o9-Pd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 04:34:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59753) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QPW1D-0006ns-Ny for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 04:34:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QPW1C-0004QB-KI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 04:34:11 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:39142) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QPW1C-0004Py-Bx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 04:34:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QPW1B-0000SW-33 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 10:34:09 +0200 Original-Received: from 65.77.197.77.rev.sfr.net ([77.197.77.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 10:34:09 +0200 Original-Received: from thierry.volpiatto by 65.77.197.77.rev.sfr.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 10:34:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.77.197.77.rev.sfr.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:EQx1ZU9GP9O0tokJow74k17Dotk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:139732 Archived-At: joakim@verona.se writes: > > We appear to now have 3 or 4 emacs address books. > - org-contacts > - abook > > - 2 bbdb variants > > While bbdb is the most mature it can't be included in Emacs AFAICS. > org-contacts is comming along and could possibly be a part of > org and thus included in Emacs. abook stores data in vcards which is > good for interoperability. I think we should get these into ELPA but > this would be the topic for another thread. FYI emacs-bookmark-extension have his own addressbook linked to emacs bookmarks. http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/emacs-bookmark-extension/ I use it everyday, it provide also completion in message buffers. You will find also the anything source in anything-config.el. -- A+ Thierry Get my Gnupg key: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 59F29997