From: Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bbdb or bbdb3 or org-contacts
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2013 15:04:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r4kxo5nk.fsf@urmel.duenenhof-wilhelm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871ucz3ofo.fsf@casa.home> (daimrod@gmail.com's message of "Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:59:39 +0100")
Thank you very much for all the input.
So in summary it is on the safe side to use bbdb for a transition period
because neither the maintainability of bbdb3 nor org-contacts seem to be
ensured.
Dieter
PS: I hope future developments will bring forth a stable database
solution maintained within Emacs proper.
Daimrod <daimrod@gmail.com> writes:
> joakim@verona.se writes:
>
>> Daimrod <daimrod@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hi Dieter,
>>>>
>>>> Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> What do you advise, what is already usable and what is the way
>>>>> ahead, still bbdb or bbdb3 or already org-contacts?
>>>>
>>>> BBDB is great. org-contacts.el is too slow when you have many
>>>> contacts, and it is not really maintained anymore.
>>>
>>> I've started to use org-contacts.el. I haven't (yet) problem with its
>>> speed but I've improved the completion mecanism which prevented me to
>>> use it. When I'll finish to document/comment it, I'll post it here.
>>
>> I would be very interested in having a look.
>
> See the attached patch files. I still need to need to take into account
> what could be after the cursor
> vvvvvv ATM I only use this
> From: John [cursor]D
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ But I would like to use this
>
> But it mostly works.
>
>> I migrated from bbdb to org-contacts, but it turned out to be too slow,
>> so now I mostly isearch for the contact I want.
>>
>> Recently I've bee thinking of trying a strategy where bbdb could act as
>> a cache for org-contacts, but I havent tried it yet. It shouldnt be too
>> hard I think. org-contacts can generate a list of all contacts, that you
>> then iterate and generate the bbdb database from. It might be a useful
>> addition in any case.
>
> I was thinking to add a cache mecanism directly to `org-contacts.el'. It
> would load the content of the contacts files the first time into the
> appropriate structure and then reread the files only when they changed.
>
> Moreover, `org-contacts.el' doesn't use the new parser from
> `org-element.el' ATM, and using it might improve the performance too.
>
>
> PS: Sorry for the double patch files but the `org-reverse-string' part
> hasn't been merged yet and I use it.
--
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt
Germany
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-03 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-27 18:06 bbdb or bbdb3 or org-contacts Dieter Wilhelm
2013-01-28 8:22 ` David Rogers
2013-02-21 9:51 ` Sriram Karra
2013-01-30 10:58 ` Bastien
2013-01-30 12:20 ` Daimrod
2013-01-30 16:15 ` Bastien
2013-02-01 10:06 ` joakim
2013-02-01 17:59 ` Daimrod
2013-02-03 14:04 ` Dieter Wilhelm [this message]
2013-02-03 15:50 ` Gour
2013-02-13 17:31 ` Bastien
2013-02-13 18:03 ` joakim
2013-02-13 22:14 ` Daimrod
2013-02-13 22:20 ` Bastien
2013-02-13 22:39 ` Daimrod
2013-02-14 7:39 ` Bastien
2013-02-14 7:56 ` Gour
2013-01-30 17:13 ` Gour
2013-01-30 17:27 ` Bastien
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