From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Abrahamsen Subject: Re: org-contacts or bbdb? Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:21:11 +0800 Message-ID: <87obxbt78o.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <8762jj1g81.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:58005) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RH4je-0007uL-Ia for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:21:27 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RH4jc-0005JC-M8 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:21:26 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:57915) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RH4jc-0005Is-BA for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:21:24 -0400 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RH4ja-00073b-Ll for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 04:21:22 +0200 Received: from 123.115.192.159 ([123.115.192.159]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 04:21:22 +0200 Received: from eric by 123.115.192.159 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 04:21:22 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Fri, Oct 21 2011, Peter Münster wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to manage my contacts, so that I can > - easily search them > - add new email addresses from gnus (summary buffer) > - complete email addresses in gnus (message buffer and prompts in > mini-buffer) > - and perhaps more in the future > > Could you guide me please, what to choose, org-contacts or bbdb? > I don't see the advantages of the one or of the other... > TIA for any hints! With those requirements, either will probably do fine. I use BBDB because it's very well tuned to gnus, and you can do quite a bit to the database just from the gnus summary/article buffers. As Rasmus mentioned, if you use BBDB you should get version 3, it's significantly better than the previous version. There's a slow movement towards better import/export functions, which I think has been one of the major gripes about BBDB in the past (there are probably more I'm not aware of). Good luck, Eric -- GNU Emacs 24.0.90.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.4) of 2011-10-06 on pellet Org-mode version 7.7 (release_7.7.393.g8caa)