Re: [Orgmode] Re: Announcing org-contacts, a bbdb-like contact manager for Org

[Julien Danjou]

On Sat, Feb 12 2011, Matt Lundin wrote:

> I tried org-contacts with my rather large agenda files, but because it
> uses org-scan-tags instead of regexp searches, queries are slow. E.g.,
> org-contacts-filter takes approximately 15-20 seconds.

Yeah, it's hard to use if you contacts are accross large agenda files.
It's slow. Using the anniversary code is currently impossible if you do
not use a single small contact file.

I plan to improve that later.

> Also, the function org-contacts uses a tags/property search and then a
> skip function. Would it perhaps be quicker to use org-search-view to
> match against two regexps (the name and the contacts email property)?

Maybe. Anyhow I've a lot of ideas for that. Considers the current
version as a quick hack. :)

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Julien Danjou
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