From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sacha Chua Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Diary Usage Poll (WAS) Re: enhanced diary mode? Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 21:33:41 +0800 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87heew3zuy.fsf@sachac.linuxboxen.org> References: <87lm4bas08.fsf@at_ipipan.waw.pl> <87d6pmxcia.fsf@wesley.springies.com> <87vg3dj90t.fsf@wesley.springies.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036503721 32099 80.91.224.249 (5 Nov 2002 13:42:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 13:42:01 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1893xw-0008LZ-00 for ; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 14:42:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 1893yy-0008Cg-00; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 08:43:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 1893qY-0006Sf-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 08:34:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 1893qU-0006RA-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 08:34:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [202.8.224.5] (helo=mail.mydestiny.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 1893qT-0006QK-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 08:34:17 -0500 Original-Received: from sachac (unknown [202.8.240.25]) by mail.mydestiny.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70BF323C37C for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 21:40:57 +0800 (PHT) Original-Received: by sachac (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 42B607D6B; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 21:33:41 +0800 (PHT) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <87vg3dj90t.fsf@wesley.springies.com> (Alan Shutko's message of "Mon, 04 Nov 2002 22:07:59 GMT") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:3307 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:3307 Alan Shutko writes: > bothered with BBDB info yet, although it's on the list, since my > phone has all that stuff. (Still no way to sync the phone.) I hooked my Nokia 5110 (yes, old phone) up to my laptop through a data cable. Gnokii can talk to it and some other kinds of phones. Alamin is a GSM SMS gateway that polls my phone for messages and sends me e-mail from alamin+phonenumber@localhost. Gnus picks it up, splits it into mail.text, looks up the sender's real name in BBDB, and uses that for summary lines. E-mail replies get parsed by a Perl script that invokes the alamin command to send text messages. Alamin queues outgoing messages and tries sending it until it succeeds (eventually giving up after a configurable number of tries). Of course, Gnus gcc:s all outgoing text I send, so I have a nice, neat archive. I'm thinking of sorting it by author and then by date. I used to have the numbers in the subject, which made it really easy to have nice threaded displays, but I moved the caller identification into the From: address and set the subject to the first N characters of the message so that I can browse easily. I used xgnokii to extract the phonebook, wrote a Perl script to turn that into an elisp script that created or updated the relevant BBDB entries, and manually merged some of the resulting entries. Right now I still add alamin+phonenumber@localhost addresses to the BBDB records that have phone numbers, although I can probably write a Perl script to munge my BBDB records (or do it in elisp, of course). I'd love it if BBDB automatically handled that for me, but I think it only checks name and net for Gnus integration. I haven't written an elisp function to initiate voice calls, but seeing as gnokii has a --dialvoice argument... =) Anyway, yeah, Emacs + cellphone is fun. -- Sacha Chua - 4 BS CS Ateneo geekette interests: emacs, gnu/linux, wearables, teaching compsci