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From: Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com>
Subject: Re: Searching BBDB by mail-alias
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:52:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877iw1n9cn.fsf@dellboy.lap.top> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <w4z3b6qlowz.fsf@rembrandt.fdm.uni-freiburg.de>

Quoth Thomas Gerds <gerds@fdm.uni-freiburg.de>:
> hi,
>
> here is some code that allows you to search all fields for which there
> is no special search utility. for example,
>
> M-x bbdb-field RET
> mail-alias RET
> . RET
>
> lists all records that have a mail-alias.
>
> (defun bbdb-field (field string elidep)
>   "Display all entries in the BBDB matching the regexp STRING in the field field."
>   (interactive "xField where to search : \nsRegular Expression for Search: \nP")
>   (let* ((target (cons field string))
> 	 (bbdb-elided-display (bbdb-grovel-elide-arg elidep))
> 	 (recs (bbdb-search (bbdb-records) nil nil nil target)))
>     (bbdb-display-records recs)
>     recs))

Many thanks Thomas.  Your code works a treat.

Sebastian

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-05  8:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.2742.1167920116.2155.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2007-01-04 16:20 ` Charles philip Chan
2007-01-04 16:47   ` Thomas Gerds
2007-01-05  8:52     ` Sebastian Tennant [this message]
2007-01-05  9:00   ` Sebastian Tennant
2007-01-04 14:09 Sebastian Tennant

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