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authorAlexander Adolf <alexander.adolf@condition-alpha.com>2022-07-13 23:52:46 +0200
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Additional query and results attributes in eudcb-macos-contacts.el
* lisp/net/eudcb-macos-contacts.el: wider set of attributes for queries, and in query results * lisp/net/eudc-vars.el (eudc-inline-expansion-format): update docstring to explain how to use the function eudc-translate-query to translate to generic attribute names in the user supplied formatting function * etc/NEWS: announce wider query/result attribute set * doc/misc/eudc.texi: more details on eudcb-mab.el's limitations
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@@ -423,11 +423,12 @@ all macOS versions since 10.0 (which was released 2001).
configurations.
@file{eudcb-mab.el} reverse engineers the format of the database file
-used by the macOS Contacts app, and accesses its contents directly.
-While this may promise some performance advantages, it comes at the
-cost of using an undocumented interface. Hence, users of
-@file{eudcb-mab.el} are recommended to double check the compatibility
-of @file{eudcb-mab.el} before upgrading to a new version of macOS.
+using the external command-line utility named contacts, which needs to
+be installed separately. While this may promise some performance
+advantages, it comes at the cost of using an undocumented interface.
+Hence, users of @file{eudcb-mab.el} are recommended to double check
+the compatibility of @file{eudcb-mab.el} and the required, external
+command-line utility before upgrading to a new version of macOS.
@file{eudcb-mab.el} is retained for backwards compatibility with
existing configurations, and may be removed in a future release.