Building an easy consult-bbdb #926

WorldsEndless · 2024-01-26T18:10:22Z

WorldsEndless
Jan 26, 2024

BBDB has the command (bbdb), which does a good thing: it takes an input, takes an "RET" key, then searches the bbdb database, and returns a list of results. It would be nice to have Consult in the equation to get those search results as-I-type. The end goal for me is to view the results so I can see details on some BBDB contact without that extra RET key-press. Is there a simple way to wire up a consult wrapper for the bbdb command or some other strategy to simply get at those results?

Answered by minad

Jan 26, 2024

I am not familiar with bbdb so I cannot help you with the details. I suggest you take a look at consult--dynamic-collection which allows you to dynamically generate candidates. consult--dynamic-collection is used by consult-line-multi and consult-info to find matching lines in buffers/info files. In a similar way, you could scan the bbdb database. I hope this helps!

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minad · 2024-01-26T18:15:33Z

minad
Jan 26, 2024
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I am not familiar with bbdb so I cannot help you with the details. I suggest you take a look at consult--dynamic-collection which allows you to dynamically generate candidates. consult--dynamic-collection is used by consult-line-multi and consult-info to find matching lines in buffers/info files. In a similar way, you could scan the bbdb database. I hope this helps!

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Scaalp-fr · 2026-08-05T15:24:07Z

Scaalp-fr
Aug 5, 2026

Hello,

I wanted to complete my email addresses from the bbdb, so I wrote cape-bbdb to integrate the bbdb with corfu. This is not for consult, but perhaps it could still help you. It shows the complete bbdb entry when you select one in the list. The code in on codeberg.

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