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Subject: Re: org-contacts or bbdb?
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:46:10 -0700
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>>>>> On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:36:21 +0200, pmlists@free.fr (Peter M=C3=BCnst=
er) said:

>> go mess with the database easily.  EG, with BBDB if one area gets a new
>> area code you can't go quickly search/replace for all records replacing
>> 111 with 222.  With org-contacts it's a simple search/replace edit.

PM> But you can open the bbdb-file and do the replacement there, can't
PM> you?

As a database, elisp dumps don't seem safe to edit.  Yes you can, but
the likely hood of running into other conflicts are problematic (IE,
matching just the number 111 in just the area-code field when there is
no easy near-by matching string to anchor a regexp against).
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