I'd like to write a command so that for a particular record (found for example with (bbdb-search (bbdb-records) regexp)) I'm able to extract just the name part of it (or e. g. the mail part, or any part of the xfields). How would you lisp this?
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There are accessor functions in bbdb3 for extracting certain part of the record:
(bbdb-record-name record)
(bbdb-record-firstname record)
(bbdb-record-lastname record)
...
They are defined in bbdb.el
bbdb-search-progwith your own function as an argument. That function would need be called with a record looked up, and whenever you think that the record matches, it would need to return the record, in case it accepts it as a potential match.bbdb-searchis just fine for me, no need forbbdb-search-prog. But I want to know how to extract for a found record for example the www part or the mail-alias...