Re: export to .txt, .html: msg#00000 emacs.bbdb.user

Aldo> How about bbdb2html (http://valente.de/aldo/bbdb)?
Looks complicated plus I gotta download an extra .pl that isn't even
in Debian. My goal is to read it on a turn of the century black and
white PDA, oh 33 characters wide.

So I whipped up this Makefile:

bbdb.html:tmp.txt
echo '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">'\
'<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>'BBDB of $$USER'</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><DL>'>$@
perl -npe 's/\&/&/g;s/^/<DT>/;\
if(!s/\t+/<\/DT><DD>/){s/$$/<\/DT>/;next}\
s/$$/<\/DD>/' $? >> $@
echo '</DL></BODY></HTML>'>>$@
tmp.txt:~/.bbdb
emacs -batch -eval '(progn(bbdb "." t)(other-window 1)\
(setq backup-inhibited t)(write-file "/dev/stdout"))'|\
perl -nlwe 's/\S+\@public\.gmane\.org//g;s/\s+$$//;print'>$@
.INTERMEDIATE: tmp.txt

As you can see I was doing marvelously until I noticed that the BBDB
authors don't always place tabs on every line! If they were
consistent, then I would be in <DT><DD> heaven. (Hey, DTDD rhymes with
BBDB.) But no.

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