-*- mode: text -*- .* What's LSDB LSDB (The Lovely Sister Database) is a rolodex-like database program for SEMI based MUA. It intends to be a lightweight replacement for BBDB (The Insidious Big Brother Database). Unfortunately, it currently doesn't support the all features of BBDB. .* Requirements LSDB works under following environment at least: * Emacs 20.7 * XEmacs 21.4 or later You will also need the following libraries: * APEL 10.2 or later * ftp://ftp.m17n.org/pub/mule/apel/ * FLIM 1.12 or later * ftp://ftp.m17n.org/pub/mule/flim/ .* Installation .. (a) run in expanded place If you don't want to install other directories, please do only following: % make You can specify the emacs command name, for example % make install EMACS=xemacs If `EMACS=...' is omitted, EMACS=emacs is used. .. (b) make install If you want to install other directories, please do following: % make install .. (c) install as a XEmacs package If you want to install to XEmacs package directory, please do following: % make install-package .* MUA Specific Installation There are the convenient ways to get the LSDB functions insinuate into some particular MUA. Only Semi-gnus and Wanderlust are currently supported. If you use Semi-gnus or its variant, put the following lines into your ~/.gnus and you will get the functions in this package autoloaded. (autoload 'lsdb-gnus-insinuate "lsdb") (autoload 'lsdb-gnus-insinuate-message "lsdb") (add-hook 'gnus-startup-hook 'lsdb-gnus-insinuate) ;; If you are using T-gnus 6.15.7 or later, type M-x ;; customize-variable and set message-expand-name-function to ;; lsdb-complete-name, instead of adding the following lines. ;; (add-hook 'message-setup-hook ;; (lambda () ;; (define-key message-mode-map "\M-\t" 'lsdb-complete-name))) (add-hook 'gnus-summary-mode-hook (lambda () (define-key gnus-summary-mode-map ":" 'lsdb-toggle-buffer))) If you use Wanderlust, put the following lines into your ~/.wl: (require 'lsdb) (lsdb-wl-insinuate) (add-hook 'wl-draft-mode-hook (lambda () (define-key wl-draft-mode-map "\M-\t" 'lsdb-complete-name))) (add-hook 'wl-summary-mode-hook (lambda () (define-key wl-summary-mode-map ":" 'lsdb-wl-toggle-buffer))) If you use Mew, put the following lines into your ~/.mew: (autoload 'lsdb-mew-insinuate "lsdb") (add-hook 'mew-init-hook 'lsdb-mew-insinuate) (add-hook 'mew-draft-mode-hook (lambda () (define-key mew-draft-header-map "\M-I" 'lsdb-complete-name))) (add-hook 'mew-summary-mode-hook (lambda () (define-key mew-summary-mode-map "L" 'lsdb-toggle-buffer))) If you use MU-CITE, put the following lines into your ~/.emacs: (autoload 'lsdb-mu-insinuate "lsdb") (eval-after-load "mu-cite" '(lsdb-mu-insinuate)) If you want to use x-face-e21 instead of the LSDB's builtin X-Face functions, set lsdb-insert-x-face-function as follows: (setq lsdb-insert-x-face-function (lambda (x-face) (require 'x-face-e21) (insert-image (x-face-create-image x-face :scale-factor 0.5)))) .* Bug Reports If you found bugs, please drop a note to the Lsdb-info Mailing List: * lsdb-info@lists.sourceforge.jp .* File Release Latest version of LSDB can be found at: * http://sourceforge.jp/projects/lsdb/files/ .* API The API is simple and not written in a way that maximizes flexibility. .. Record Management . : Gathering Records . , lsdb-update-records lsdb-update-records is called from the buffer which contains raw contents of MIME entity. It returns a list of records gathered from the buffer. . : Display Records . , lsdb-display-record lsdb-display-record displays the formatted contents of the record within the popup window. If you want to display multiple records, use lsdb-display-records instead. .. Internal Data Model . : Primary Hash Table There are two kinds of hash tables used in LSDB: a primary hash table and secondary hash tables. lsdb-hash-table is the primary hash table which holds mappings for names and record objects. You can operate on LSDB hash tables in similar fashion to CL's hash-table API: lsdb-puthash (for puthash), lsdb-gethash (for gethash), and lsdb-maphash (for maphash) are available. Here is an example to get the record object for "Daiki Ueno": (lsdb-gethash "Daiki Ueno" lsdb-hash-table) => ((last-modified . "2002-04-23") (creation-date . "2002-04-26") (net "ueno@unixuser.org") (mailing-list "emacs-mime-ja") (attribution . "DU") (user-agent "T-gnus/6.15.6 (based on Oort Gnus v0.06) (revision 03)")) . : Secondary Hash Tables LSDB can also have one or more secondary hash tables. These hash tables are mainly used to define additional relationships between record objects and their entries. For example, lsdb-address-cache is one of secondary hash table which maintains mappings of mail addresses to record names. The variable lsdb-secondary-hash-tables is a list of symbols for _maintained_ secondary hash tables. When the primary hash table is loaded or saved, these hash tables are updated automatically. . , Operate on Secondary Hash Tables You will need to follow the manner of the LSDB hooks. . ; lsdb-lookup-full-name-functions List of functions to pick up the existing full-name of the sender. The sender is passed to each function as the argument. . ; lsdb-update-record-functions List of functions called after a record is modified. The modified record is passed to each function as the argument. .* Development .. CVS Development of LSDB uses CVS. So latest developing version is available at CVS. . : cvs login (first time only) % cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.m17n.org:/cvs/root login CVS password: [CR] # NULL string . : checkout % cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.m17n.org:/cvs/root checkout lsdb If you would like to join CVS based development, please send mail to cvs@cvs.m17n.org with your account name and your public key for ssh. cvsroot is :ext:cvs@cvs.m17n.org:/cvs/root. If you cannot use ssh, please send UNIX /etc/passwd style crypted password. you can commit with the cvsroot :pserver:@cvs.m17n.org:/cvs/root. We hope you will join the open development. .* Authors * Daiki Ueno * Hideyuki SHIRAI (support for Mew) * Yuuichi Teranishi * TSUCHIYA Masatoshi .* Local emacs vars. The following `allout-layout' local variable setting: - closes all topics from the first topic to just before the third-to-last, - shows the children of the third to last (config vars) - and the second to last (code section), - and closes the last topic (this local-variables section). Local variables: allout-layout: (0 : -1 -1 0) End: