Group Processors

Group Names Generation

The script generate a list of people's name in the BBDB buffer. This feature is useful to generate a list of names and group them accordingly. For example, you can create a group of people in your family, your circle-of-friend group, your business-people group, etc.

1.

Invoke M-x bbdb to populate the *BBDB* buffer with the contents you wish to generate.

2.

Put the cursor at the person's name and type x (this will only generate that person name only). To generate the whole content of your *BBDB* buffer, type *-x (this will generate a list of people's names of your *BBDB* buffer.

3.

You will be prompted for an ``Action To Apply''. Type in group-names-gen and press enter.

4.

You will be prompted for a file name to save. The default name is group.names. To accept this default, press enter, otherwise type in your own file name and press enter.

Using bbdb-group feature for the Names Generation File

Once you generate the list of names, you can append one or all of the names in the list for their complete information. There are 4 bbdb-group command available:

• bbdb-group-append
• bbdb-group-blank
• bbdb-group-input
• bbdb-group-process-line

1.

First of all, you need to open the group.names file that you just create in previous section.

2.

To append just a name, put the cursor at the beginning of that person's name and type in M-x bbdb-group-process-line. As a result, a *BBDB* buffer will be created and the person's information that you requested will appear. If you run M-x bbdb-group-process-line for the next person in the list, the *BBDB* buffer will add that person name to the buffer.

3.

To automatically append the whole name in the list, use M-x bbdb-group-append command.

4.

The M-x bbdb-group-blank jus create a blank *BBDB* buffer.

5.

The M-x bbdb-group-input act the same way as bbdb-group-append