From: Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-bbdb: anniversaries with unknown years
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 13:16:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <i8s7bc$1qj$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7A37ACA4-DE3B-4745-A1FC-98ED62A53982@gmail.com
Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
> On Oct 10, 2010, at 12:15 PM, Christoph Groth wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'd like to keep birthdays and similar dates in bbdb and have them
>> shown
>> in my org mode agenda views. Often, however, I do not know the year
>> of
>> an anniversary, and in the case of my acquaintances the year of a
>> personal anniversary is often not meaningful (e.g. name days,
>> popular in
>> some countries).
>>
>> The solution that came to my mind was to update org-bbdg.el to also
>> accept dates in the format MM-DD. org-bbdb-anniv-extract-date would
>> then substitute nil for unknown years. The remaining code would make
>> sure that "unknown" is substituted for unknown `years'.
>>
>> That solution seems fine, however it would break compatibility with
>> the
>> old format of org-bbdb-anniversary-format-alist, as this assumes
>> that a
>> numerical value of `years' is always defined.
>>
>> Before writing a patch, I would like to ask for opinions on this.
>
> I am not sure if there are nay other tools which make use of birthdays
> in bbdb.
>
> I would such an extension useful.
>
> - Carsten
++ on that one. I get funny looks when asking friends what year they
were born in. Not least because I refuse to capitulate to the FaceBook
masses. org-mode might be referred to, jokingly, as Borg-mode in #emacs
but faceBook is a far more powerful force for evil .....
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-10 11:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-10 10:15 org-bbdb: anniversaries with unknown years Christoph Groth
2010-10-10 10:34 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-10 11:16 ` Richard Riley [this message]
2010-10-10 11:26 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-10-10 11:57 ` Richard Riley
2010-10-25 16:33 ` Thomas Baumann
2011-02-07 11:43 ` [PATCH] org-bbdb: allow " Christoph Groth
2011-02-08 15:57 ` [Accepted] " Bastien Guerry
2011-02-08 15:58 ` [PATCH] " Bastien
2011-02-08 16:05 ` Thomas Baumann
2011-02-09 14:42 ` Christoph Groth
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