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)
