From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#35261: 26.1; EBDB Documentation Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 13:33:11 -0700 Message-ID: <87zhonf3zs.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87r2a5nyn1.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87a7gronz1.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87r2a1k665.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="263012"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: "35261@debbugs.gnu.org" <35261@debbugs.gnu.org> To: David Masterson Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 18 22:34:16 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hHDjb-0016Ip-U0 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2019 22:34:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46854 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hHDja-0005J0-To for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2019 16:34:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:50246) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hHDjO-0005AB-Vd for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2019 16:34:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hHDjN-0004VM-TC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2019 16:34:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:57244) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hHDjN-0004V5-QC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2019 16:34:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hHDjN-0001ft-Ic for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2019 16:34:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eric Abrahamsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 20:34:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 35261 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 35261-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B35261.15556196026393 (code B ref 35261); Thu, 18 Apr 2019 20:34:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 35261) by debbugs.gnu.org; 18 Apr 2019 20:33:22 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42555 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hHDij-0001f3-LL for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2019 16:33:21 -0400 Original-Received: from ericabrahamsen.net ([52.70.2.18]:42624 helo=mail.ericabrahamsen.net) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hHDig-0001em-Dl for 35261@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 18 Apr 2019 16:33:19 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (97-126-87-168.tukw.qwest.net [97.126.87.168]) (Authenticated sender: eric@ericabrahamsen.net) by mail.ericabrahamsen.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5CEF9FA028; Thu, 18 Apr 2019 20:33:12 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: (David Masterson's message of "Wed, 17 Apr 2019 03:41:47 +0000") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:157805 Archived-At: On 04/17/19 03:41 AM, David Masterson wrote: > Eric Abrahamsen writes: > >> Here's what the new version looks like: >> >> * Getting Started >> EBDB is a contact management package: it records information about >> people and organizations, and integrates with other Emacs software >> packages, mostly those concerned with sending and reading mail. The >> principle parts of EBDB are records, which represent people and >> organizations; fields, representing detailed data about records; and >> databases, which hold and persist records. >> >> There are a large number of configuration options listed in this >> manual, but the only one you might want to tweak in advance is >> ~ebdb-sources~ (see [The EBDB Database]), which controls where EBDB >> stores its records. >> >> ** Starting a New Database >> If you have no records you want to migrate from other contact >> management software, start by calling the command ~ebdb-open~. This >> will open a new buffer in ~ebdb-mode~, and prompt you to create a >> database, if one doesn't already exist. From there, you can use >> {{{kbd(c)}}} to make new records (see [Creating Records]). > > Otherwise, you'll want to migrate your data from other contact > management software as described in the sections below. Currently, EBDB > only knows about migrating from BBDB and Org Contacts. Okay, sounds good. > ==== > > Beyond this, I can see that lots of documentation (and, I assume, > functionality) is still needed: > > 1. Installation details of EBDB and related tools. > 2. Details on what type of records a database is composed of. > 3. Details on the fields of a record. > 4. Details on the type of a field. > 5. Import/Export functionality > 6. Hooks for add-ons > > * By 'details', I mean some Emacs Elisp and not just English to give us > real reference information. EBDB is only just stabilizing (the export stuff went through some big refactoring just recently) and I'm a little hesitant to lay all this stuff out in the manual. One of the long-term goals is definitely to make EBDB programmable and integratable with other packages, but I'm dragging my feet a little bit until I'm more confident that the API won't change. It'll get there, though. Eric