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The Near Future
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   * Add bbdb/MUA-delete-sender-record

   * Configurable completion.  Should allow user to specify "complete on
     names first, then nets", etc.

   * More variables for upgrading.  Specifically a variable that lets
     users specify extra fields for upgrading (an alist `(a . b)' that
     says field `a' should be upgraded the same way as field `b'.

   * Change all functions that switch on MUAs to use compose-mail (ex:
     `bbdb-send-mail-internal').

   * Soren Dayton's method for generically extending the BBDB with
     special-purpose fields

   * Sorting records on alternate keys.  `bbdb-sort-by' from Boris
     Goldowsky.

   * Sorting individual types of fields - Sam Steingold's method.

   * Button 3 menus (Mark Moll and Soren Dayton)

   * Conditionalized erasure of properties when text is pasted into the
     BBDB.

   * Should notice when there are `Reply-To:' addresses.

   * Should have a command for merging together two divergent copies of
     a `.bbdb' file (in case you read mail on one machine and news on
     another, for instance.)

   * The `*BBDB*' buffer should be resized to exactly fit what it's
     displaying, even when not in "electric" mode.

   * It should be possible to do completion on last names as well as
     first names.

   * The BBDB buffer is left at the top of the stack when GNUS is exited
     because GNUS runs its exit-hooks too early.  This should be fixed.

   * String area codes (German area codes can begin with zeroes) patch
     from `Michael Sperber <sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>'

   * Default country variable, similar to `bbdb-default-area-code'.

   * Make format self-describing in comment

   * ISO-8859-x characters in records for printing.

   * Prefix for `W' (`bbdb-www') command to allow selection of
     different addresses.

   * Generalized buttons (via extents) for fields.  Example: `(a . b)'
     means create button that calls `b' for each entry in the `a' field.

   * Remove support for GNUS.  Start with lisp Makefile (remove nntp
     and gnus loads).

   * More flexible auto-addition.  Conditionalizing of addition
     (conditions or supplied function).  Prompt if multiple records
     that meet criteria exist.

   * Different output formats.  See Toby Speight's
     `<s8iurdodvm.fsf@plato.ansa.co.uk>' and Bin Mu's
     `<199801221605.KAA23663@DerivaTech.Com>'.

   * Generalized area-code-split program that could split, for example,
     based on input copied (or straight fetch of page) from the
     Bellcore NANP page.

   * Print multivalue (comma-separated) fields with one value per line

   * Easier BBDB extension.  See `<xcdyb30f3hb.fsf@ra.cs.uchicago.edu>'
     from Soren Dayton.

   * Take birthdays from the BBDB, add them to calendar.  From Boris
     Goldowsky.

   * Make mail aliases file for other mailers.  From Boris Goldowsky.

   * Various patches from Boris Goldowsky in `bbdb-ext'.

   * Various other patches:
        - `bbdb-filters-0.2'

        - `bbdb-frame.el'

        - `bbdb-letter-1.0'

        - `bbdb-plz'

        - `bbdb-query'

        - `country'

        - `country-info'

     Note that these files have not been investigated.  They may or may
     not be incorporated.

   * Ability to remove all properties from copied strings.


Not-So-Near Future
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   * Fix Gnus scoring so it rebuilds when gnus-score disappears

   * Multiline note fields

   * Change key to be some kind of unique number

   * There should be better support for non-American addresses and phone
     numbers.  This might be Near Future if somebody volunteers to send
     me patches.

   * Should reimplement "electric" mode to not be so broken.

   * The `*C-o' keystroke should add a field to all displayed records.
     Perhaps `*;' should append some text to an arbitrary field of all
     displayed records.

   * Multiple `.bbdb' files with precedence relationships.  See Wes
     Hardaker's
     `<sdu3awz75a.fsf@oakdale.ucdavis.edu>'

   * Automatically grab information about a person from their sig.  See
     Graham Clark's `info-bbdb' post
     `<6282.199706161624@havra.dcs.ed.ac.uk>' and Adrian Aichner's
     `info-bbdb' post `<rxsiuzebpgp.fsf@midnight.ecf.teradyne.com>'.
     Would like to have `bbdb-snarf' attack the sig then compare the
     snarfed data with the header data.


Thoughts
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   * Are there enough hooks?

   * The interfaces should share more code.

   * The `bbdb-create-internal' function should be more forgiving.

   * More `*' commands in general, including `*d'.