Appendix A: Installing Functions and Packages from the CD: bbdb.el

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Appendix A: Installing Functions and Packages from the CD

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bbdb.el

BBDB is a rolodex-like database program for GNU Emacs. BBDB stands for Insidious Big Brother Database. It provides the following features:

Integration with mail and news readers, with little or no interaction by the user

Listing all records that match a regular expression

Listing all records that match a regular expression in a particular field (such as, "company" or "notes")

To use it, add the following code to your Emacs:


(require 'bbdb) 
(bbdb-initialize 'gnus 'message) 
(add-hook 'gnus-startup-hook 'bbdb-insinuate-gnus)

Caution - (bbdb-insinuate-message) There have been reported problems with 2.00 that bbdb-initialize does not work if you byte compile BBDB. This problem may have been corrected in the latest version of BBDB.

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