From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: org-bbdb: help Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:26:26 -0500 Message-ID: <6037.1235636786@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> References: <8763iy6rbw.fsf@mean.albasani.net> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lcbbc-00041S-L0 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:28:32 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lcbbc-00041D-2u for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:28:32 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34065 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lcbbb-00041A-Sm for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:28:31 -0500 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:10938) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lcbba-0007kL-28 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:28:30 -0500 Received: from qmta06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.56]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lcba7-0008DQ-Dy for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:26:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message from Memnon Anon of "Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:16:21 GMT." <8763iy6rbw.fsf@mean.albasani.net> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Memnon Anon Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Memnon Anon wrote: > Hi! > > I like to keep track of birthdays of people I know. > For the last 6 months, I've been keeping a birthday section > in my organizer.org, having multiple lines like this one: > > %%(diary-anniversary 1 1 1111) Geburtstag Foo: %d Jahre. > > But, since I started with emacs, I wanted to get used to the bbdb, > and since the start my bday section ends like this: %%(org-bbdb-anniversaries) > > I am no lisper, but I spent several days to get this working, lately. > Try and Error, and I got it! Hooray!! > > ... > > 2 Days ago, my hd died, my backups are 2 weeks old, it is lost again :((. > > Today, I tried 4 hours to remember how I got it working, but, nothing yet, > and it starts frustrating me. > > Could someone *please* post a line of his .bbdb, containing the anniversary > field as it works? I am just not strong enought to do it again ;) > I think something like this should work: anniversary: 1972-02-26 birthday Check the documentation for the variable org-bbdb-anniversary-field: C-h v org-bbdb-anniversary-field RET HTH, Nick