Re: [O] phone links...

[Robert Goldman]

Michael Strey wrote:
> Robert,
> 
> On Mo, Apr 08, 2013 at 09:44:12 -0500, Robert Goldman wrote:
>> Michael Strey wrote:
>>> Currently org-phone.el as well as my org-dial.el are incompatible with
>>> org-contacts.  The only idea behind my proposal was to make the contributors
>>> of both packages aware of each other.
>> Can you explain what makes org-phone incompatible with org-contacts?
>> Maybe my naming of some function?
> 
> The problem is on the side of org-contacts.  Org-contacts does not
> support links in its properties.  Thus, currently the only solution to
> use the advantages of org-contacts and org-phone is to give the
> information twice, like in the following example.
> 
> #+BEGIN_SRC org
> * Strey, Michael
> :PROPERTIES:
> :EMAIL:    address@hidden address@hidden
> :PHONE:    +493514129535 +491263213
> :END:
> 
> [[mailto:address@hidden
> [[mailto:address@hidden
> [[phone:+49 (0)351 41295-35]]
> [[phone:+49 126 3213]]
> #+END_SRC
> 
> This shortcoming effects not only the phone links but email links as
> well.
> 
> Regards

I think in that case it might be best to have a function in org-contacts
that "knows" that PHONE contains phone numbers, and that can parse them
out, and shoot them off to org-phone.

Vague thought: Make C-c C-c aware of PHONE properties so that it can
perform this magic.

Again, I am not an org-contacts user, so this may be a stupid question,
but how does org-contacts "know" when it has a contact?  I am looking at
the sample record you present above, and it looks just like an org-mode
header to me.  There is no marker, as far as I can tell, that would tell
org-mode that it is a contact record, instead of some other arbitrary
thing.  This seems odd to me.  Why isn't it something like

#+BEGIN_SRC org
* CONTACT Strey, Michael
:PROPERTIES:
:EMAIL:    address@hidden address@hidden
:PHONE:    +493514129535 +491263213
:END:
#+END_SRC

by analogy to the way TODO flags a task?

At any rate, any function that could parse a :PHONE: property could
easily (funcall org-phone-function <phone-number>).

Cheers,
r