* for your amusement
@ 2012-08-02 9:41 Eric Abrahamsen
2014-02-20 10:55 ` Nicolas Richard
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Eric Abrahamsen @ 2012-08-02 9:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: bbdb-info; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
For a while I've had a function for creating textual citations of my
BBDB contacts, that relied on `bbdb-dwim-mail'. I expanded that to make
use of org's link syntax, so that you can insert a BBDB link on the
spot, without having to first visit your *BBDB* buffer and create a link
there. I find this pretty helpful.
If anyone can think of more formatting possibilities, "formats" could be
broken out into a variable.
Incidentally, I'm using `ido-everywhere', and would like to write this
function so that it didn't _rely_ on ido, but made use of ido when
`ido-everywhere' was true. Ie, I'd like to replace the
`ido-completing-read' calls with something more generic that still made
use of ido when it was turned on. Any suggestions?
Eric
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(defun cite-bbdb-contact (name)
(interactive "sName (regexp): ")
(let ((rec)
(records (bbdb-search (bbdb-records) name name name nil nil))
(formats '(("text" . bbdb-dwim-mail)
("orglink" . (lambda (x)
(let ((name (bbdb-record-name x)))
(format "[[%s][%s]]"
(org-make-link "bbdb:" name) name)))))))
(if (= (length records) 1)
(setq rec (car records))
(if (zerop (length records))
(error "No matching records")
(setq rec
(let ((int-name
(ido-completing-read "Pick one: "
(mapcar 'bbdb-record-name records))))
(car (bbdb-search (bbdb-records) int-name))))))
(let ((func (cdr (assoc (ido-completing-read
"Format: " (mapcar #'car formats)) formats))))
(insert (funcall func rec)))))
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* Re: for your amusement
2012-08-02 9:41 for your amusement Eric Abrahamsen
@ 2014-02-20 10:55 ` Nicolas Richard
2014-02-20 11:29 ` Eric Abrahamsen
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Nicolas Richard @ 2014-02-20 10:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode; +Cc: bbdb-info
[fu2 gmane.emacs.bbdb.user]
Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> Incidentally, I'm using `ido-everywhere', and would like to write this
> function so that it didn't _rely_ on ido, but made use of ido when
> `ido-everywhere' was true. Ie, I'd like to replace the
> `ido-completing-read' calls with something more generic that still made
> use of ido when it was turned on. Any suggestions?
ido-everywhere is only meant for buffer/file (see its docstring). People
who really want ido everywhere should probably use ido-ubiquitous which
sets completing-read-function to ido-completing-read (in fact, a wrapper
around it because it cannot handle all cases that completing-read should
handle).
Hence, my suggestion would be to use completing-read instead of
ido-completing-read in your code, and configure ido-ubiquitous
(available from marmalade and melpa) for controlling what to use.
Related package : ido-hacks (which also enables ido in more places)
I *guess* it'll then also work automagically with icomplete-mode
(shipped with recent emacs) if that is what the user enable instead of
ido-ubiquitous.
--
Nico.
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* Re: for your amusement
2014-02-20 10:55 ` Nicolas Richard
@ 2014-02-20 11:29 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-02-20 12:08 ` Nicolas Richard
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Eric Abrahamsen @ 2014-02-20 11:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode; +Cc: bbdb-info
"Nicolas Richard" <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr> writes:
> [fu2 gmane.emacs.bbdb.user]
>
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>> Incidentally, I'm using `ido-everywhere', and would like to write this
>> function so that it didn't _rely_ on ido, but made use of ido when
>> `ido-everywhere' was true. Ie, I'd like to replace the
>> `ido-completing-read' calls with something more generic that still made
>> use of ido when it was turned on. Any suggestions?
>
> ido-everywhere is only meant for buffer/file (see its docstring). People
> who really want ido everywhere should probably use ido-ubiquitous which
> sets completing-read-function to ido-completing-read (in fact, a wrapper
> around it because it cannot handle all cases that completing-read should
> handle).
>
> Hence, my suggestion would be to use completing-read instead of
> ido-completing-read in your code, and configure ido-ubiquitous
> (available from marmalade and melpa) for controlling what to use.
>
> Related package : ido-hacks (which also enables ido in more places)
>
> I *guess* it'll then also work automagically with icomplete-mode
> (shipped with recent emacs) if that is what the user enable instead of
> ido-ubiquitous.
Gosh, where did you guys dig this thread up from? :)
Thanks for the refinements on the original function, and for the tips on
ido related packages in elpa repos -- I hadn't been aware of that. I've
been a tiny bit annoyed with this function ever since I wrote it
(obviously not annoyed enough, since that was years ago), as progressive
narrowing didn't work the way I wanted it to. Kevin, I'll give your
version a whack, and maybe come back with some more refinements in a
bit.
Thanks!
E
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* Re: for your amusement
2014-02-20 11:29 ` Eric Abrahamsen
@ 2014-02-20 12:08 ` Nicolas Richard
2014-02-20 13:42 ` Eric Abrahamsen
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Nicolas Richard @ 2014-02-20 12:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode; +Cc: bbdb-info
Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> Gosh, where did you guys dig this thread up from? :)
Oops, I didn't notice the date of your original message. I answered
because of Kevin's answer.
--
Nico.
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* Re: for your amusement
2014-02-20 12:08 ` Nicolas Richard
@ 2014-02-20 13:42 ` Eric Abrahamsen
0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Eric Abrahamsen @ 2014-02-20 13:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode; +Cc: bbdb-info
"Nicolas Richard" <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr> writes:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>> Gosh, where did you guys dig this thread up from? :)
>
> Oops, I didn't notice the date of your original message. I answered
> because of Kevin's answer.
If we're still using (and improving) the snippet, it's still a relevant thread!
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