Re: --writephonebook, --deletephonebook (was: --writephonebook options)

[Pawel Kot]

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Reiner Steib wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 09 2004, Pawel Kot wrote:
>
> > The workaround would be to avoid reading input from the stdin. But
> > that's ugly.
>
> Something like "gnokii --writephonebook FILE"?  Why is this ugly?

Because:
 - it doesn't fix bug but workarounds it
 - changes the behaviour on which some user applications may depend
It's not ugly itself.

> > You mean: when the location is busy, do not write it? That's not
> > correct behaviour.
>
> IMHO it's better than the current behavior.  Well, I even think
> everything is better than the current infloop. ;-)

OK. So we'd have:
 --writephonebook with no options to not overwrite
 --writephonebook -o to overwrite
 --writephonebook -f to find the free entry.
It may be indeed a good compromise.

> Yes, with this change, it works.  Could you please commit it?

Sure.

> The attached patch adds a description of "--find-free" and
> "--deletephonebook" to the man page.

Thanks.

> A feature request for "--deletephonebook": "end_number" can be either
> a number or a keyword end that denotes 'everything till the end' (see
> --deletecalendarnote).

It should not be hard. I'll try to commit along with other changes.

pkot
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