#664255 abook : adding notes of several lines

Package:
abook
Source:
abook
Description:
text-based ncurses address book application
Submitter:
Ubuntu6226
Date:
2015-09-28 23:24:03 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#664255#5
Date:
2012-03-17 05:55:36 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,


I would like to add lot of lines such as opening hours, adresses, as bulk into abook ...

how to paste that with middle click of mouse, since visibly it ask from a single line only into custom

kind regards
aboook user

#664255#10
Date:
2015-09-25 04:16:42 UTC
From:
To:
abook does not provide a multiline read/write area and won't display a
multiline text... in a nice way.

Anyway you can "force" it by asking your terminal to input a litteral
newline. You can do that using Control-V followed by Control-J
(but it may be something else in other terminals like: Control-V <Enter> ?)

This will actually store the multiline information. But don't expect a
nice display and text edition from abook
(nor you should expect a valid output when it comes to export, since
most of the built-in output export filters are for format which would
break easily on newlines).