Re: status of bbdb v3 integration

[Vincent Bernat <bernat@luffy.cx>]

Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr> writes:

> I'm thinking of upgrading to bbdb v3. How is it working with gnus ? Is
> there anything to change in the .bbdb file and/or in the gnus
> settings ?

I have just upgraded and it is a bit a mess since everything has
changed. But, you don't have to do any modification to .bbdb. Moreover,
there is absolutely no documentation for BBDBv3. You can try to migrate
using this wiki page:
 http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/UpgradeBBDB

After the migration, I noticed that the records where not udpated nor
displayed automtically. I had to add this:

#v+
(add-hook 'bbdb-notice-mail-hook 'bbdb-auto-notes)
(add-hook 'gnus-article-prepare-hook 'vbe/gnus/bbdb-display-record)
(defun vbe/gnus/bbdb-display-record ()
  "Display appropriate BBDB record for the current message."
  (unless
      (bbdb-mua-display-records nil 'search)
    ;; No record found, close the BBDB popup
    (let ((window (get-buffer-window bbdb-buffer-name)))
      (when window (delete-window window)))))
#v-

Here is my current configuration for BBDB:
 https://github.com/vincentbernat/dot.emacs/blob/master/gnus/bbdb.el

> The reason I'm contemplating switching is that I'd like to try Asynk
> (http://karra-asynk.appspot.com/) which claims to provide 2-way
> synchronization between (among others) bbdb and google contacts. One
> get almost seamless integration between contacts on a computer and an
> Android Phone.
>
> On a related note, I'm curious to know what gnus users have chosen to
> share their contact databases between phone and
> computer. I've so far tried org-contacts
> (http://julien.danjou.info/software/org-contacts.el, dropped by the
> author it seems) and
> (http://julien.danjou.info/software/google-contacts.el).

Is it possible with any of those solutions to avoid to clutter the phone
with all the contacts from BBDB? I have thousands of contacts in BBDB
but I don't want to have all of them in Google Contacts. Ideally, only
contacts already in Google Contacts should be updated in Google
Contacts with information from BBDB.
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