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Re: [Orgmode] org-bbdb: help


From: Nick Dokos
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] org-bbdb: help
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:26:26 -0500

Memnon Anon <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I like to keep track of birthdays of people I know.
> For the last 6 months, I've been keeping a birthday section
> in my organizer.org, having multiple lines like this one:
> 
>    %%(diary-anniversary 1 1 1111) Geburtstag Foo: %d Jahre.
> 
> But, since I started with emacs, I wanted to get used to the bbdb,
> and since the start my bday section ends like this: %%(org-bbdb-anniversaries)
> 
> I am no lisper, but I spent several days to get this working, lately.
> Try and Error, and I got it! Hooray!! 
> 
> ...
> 
> 2 Days ago, my hd died, my backups are 2 weeks old, it is lost again :((.
> 
> Today, I tried 4 hours to remember how I got it working, but, nothing yet,
> and it starts frustrating me. 
> 
> Could someone *please* post a line of his .bbdb, containing the anniversary 
> field as it works? I am just not strong enought to do it again ;)
> 

I think something like this should work:

      anniversary: 1972-02-26 birthday

Check the documentation for the variable org-bbdb-anniversary-field:

      C-h v org-bbdb-anniversary-field RET

HTH,      
Nick






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