Emacs: BBDB rapid serial visualization
| bbdb, emacsAnd because it's good to quickly flash through records once in a while
to refresh my memory…
(defvar sacha/bbdb-rapid-serial-visualization-delay
1
"*Number of seconds to wait between records.
Set to 0 to wait for input.")
(defun sacha/bbdb-rapid-serial-visualization ()
"Breeze through everyone's name and notes."
(interactive)
(window-configuration-to-register ?a)
;; Copy the currently visible records
(let ((records bbdb-records)
(default-size (face-attribute 'default :height))
(new-size 400)
(continue t))
(set-face-attribute 'default nil :height new-size)
(pop-to-buffer (get-buffer-create "BBDB-Serial"))
(delete-other-windows)
(while (and records continue)
(insert (bbdb-record-name (caar records))
"\n\n"
(or (car (bbdb-record-net (caar records))) "No e-mail")
"\n\n"
(or (bbdb-record-notes (caar records)) "")
(make-string 50 ?\n))
(goto-char (point-min))
(sit-for sacha/bbdb-rapid-serial-visualization-delay)
(setq records (cdr records)))
(set-face-attribute 'default nil :height default-size)
(when continue
(jump-to-register ?a))))
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