[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: auto-bbdb'izing?

[Sacha Chua]

Paul Lussier <address@hidden> writes:

> I often have notes or tasks which reference a person.  So I want to be
> able to turn the string 'jdoe', automatically, into something like
> [[bbdb://jdoe][John Doe]].  I'm thinking this would perhaps be bound

Some kind of hack could probably be done around
planner-bbdb-annotation-from-bbdb...

> Does that make sense?  I was also thinking this same sort of behavior
> might be nice for other keywords like 'yesterday', 'today', and
> 'tomorrow'.  Such that if you needed to write one of these, you could
> then morph it into something like [[2005.02.08][yesterday]].

Sounds like a job for a fancy hippie-expand function. ^_^
Hmmm, interesting idea. I've added it to my TODO list.

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