Re: BBDB v3 activity
"Bob Newell" <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Aug 6, 2026, at 11:39, Greg Bognar via List for discussion and development of BBDB for GNU Emacs wrote: > Don't get me wrong, I'm happy with using BBDB, but I do remember what a > pain it was to switch from v2 to v3 many years ago, because there was, and apparently > still is, absolutely no documentation. There was/is actually a page or two showing how v3 functions mapped to v2 functions. That made all the difference for me; I never could have made the transition without it. > I don't think I would give BBDB a chance today and I suspect many > potential users don't, either, when there are well-documented alternatives. v2 had reasonable documentation and the ideas mostly carry over, but not necessarily the function names, so for this you are right--- a new user approaching BBDB has quite an uphill battle, and might turn to the org-contacts address book or some other alternative. EBDB was coming along until Eric disappeared from the scene. There is also HyRolo and maybe others within the Emacs ecosystem. But having conquered BBDB I now depend upon it and as I've often said you can do amazing things with it. Bob Newell Honolulu