Getting user defined field from bbdb

Getting user defined field from bbdb

[Cecil Westerhof]

I wrote a function to insert (parameter driven) certain fields from a
bbdb record into the current buffer. But a bbdb cab have user defined
fields. How can I get the value of those fields? (for example mailer)

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Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
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Re: Getting user defined field from bbdb

[Cecil Westerhof]

Op dinsdag 27 jul 2010 08:24 CEST schreef Cecil Westerhof:

> I wrote a function to insert (parameter driven) certain fields from a
> bbdb record into the current buffer. But a bbdb cab have user defined
> fields. How can I get the value of those fields? (for example
> mailer)

I have something that works:
    (progn
      (setq field-to-use "mailer"
            this-string  "ERROR: field not found"
            user-defined-fields (elt this-record 7))
      (while user-defined-fields
        (setq this-field          (car user-defined-fields)
              user-defined-fields (cdr user-defined-fields))
        (when (string= field-to-use (car this-field))
            (setq this-string         (format "%s" (cdr this-field))
                  user-defined-fields nil)))
      this-string)

The code expects that this-record is filled with the record from the
bbdb from which you want to extract info.

It is just a proof of concept, some things have to be done better. But
as far as I can see, this does what needs to be done. I am not yet
fluent at Emacs Lisp. So I was wondering if this code is good, or if
there are serious optimisations possible.

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Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof