drich@dialogic.uucp (Dan Rich) (02/13/90)
I have recently discovered a need for a simple database, and it seems to me that GNU Emacs is the perfect enviorment for one. Has anyone else written a database that runs under Emacs? I am considering doing this myself, but don't want to put in the time if someone has already done it. -- Dan Rich | ARPA: drich@dialogic.com UNIX Systems Administrator | UUCP: uunet!dialogic!drich Dialogic Corporation | - Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so. - (201) 334-1268 x213 | Douglas Adams
metz@iam.unibe.ch (Igor Metz) (02/13/90)
In article <1070@dialogic.UUCP> drich@dialogic.uucp (Dan Rich) writes: > I have recently discovered a need for a simple database, and it >seems to me that GNU Emacs is the perfect enviorment for one. Has >anyone else written a database that runs under Emacs? I am >considering doing this myself, but don't want to put in the time if >someone has already done it. I have implemented a bibliography "database" in elisp. It's menu driven and uses forms for data entry and query. Since we do not have any database system on our machine, I had to make this cheap, quick and dirty elisp hack. The data is held in a text file which uses delimiters (^L) to separate fields and newlines to separate records (BNF grammar included below). When I wrote the program, I didn't think about reusing the code for anything else, so it might not be very useful for others (expect as an example, maybe not even for that...). I can send the code to any interested party. But Achtung, das Zeug ist mit deutschen Kommentaren versehen (comments are in german...). <datei> ::= <record-begrenzer> {<record> <record-begrenzer>}. <record-begrenzer> ::= NL. <record> ::= <autor-feld> <titel-feld> <jahr-feld> [<zeitschrift-feld>] [<band-feld>] [<seiten-feld>] [<proceedings-feld>] [<institution-feld>] [<nummer-feld>] [<keyword-feld>] <vorhanden-feld>. <autor-feld> ::= "%A " <text><feld-begrenzer>. <titel-feld> ::= "%T " <text><feld-begrenzer>. <jahr-feld> ::= "%J " <zahl><feld-begrenzer>. <zeitschrift-feld> ::= "%Z " <text><feld-begrenzer>. <band-feld> ::= "%B " <text>.<feld-begrenzer> <seiten-feld> ::= "%S " <text><feld-begrenzer>. <proceedings-feld> ::= "%P " <text><feld-begrenzer>. <institution-feld> ::= "%I " <text><feld-begrenzer>. <nummer-feld> ::= "%N " <text><feld-begrenzer>. <keyword-feld> ::= "%K " <wort} [{"," <wort>}]<feld-begrenzer>. <vorhanden-feld> ::= "%V " ("y"|"Y"|"n"|"N")<feld-begrenzer>. <feld-begrenzer> ::= FF. Igor Metz X400: metz@iamsm.iam.unibe.ch Institut fuer Informatik ARPA: metz%iamsm.iam.unibe.ch@relay.cs.net und angewandte Mathematik UUCP: ..!uunet!mcsun!iamsm.iam.unibe.ch!metz Universitaet Bern Phone: (0041) 31 65 49 90 Switzerland Fax: (0041) 31 65 39 65 -- Igor Metz X400: metz@iamsm.iam.unibe.ch Institut fuer Informatik ARPA: metz%iamsm.iam.unibe.ch@relay.cs.net und angewandte Mathematik UUCP: ..!uunet!mcsun!iamsm.iam.unibe.ch!metz Universitaet Bern Phone: (0041) 31 65 49 90
nelson@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (J. Nelson Howell) (02/14/90)
I don't have one for gnu, but I have written one in MicroEMACS that you may be able to translate. I did it more as an exercise than anything else, but it has proved quite useful. (Shook out a lot of bugs for DL too!) Let me know if you would like to see it and I'll send it. J. Nelson Howell nelson@midas.mgmt.purdue.edu System Programmer NELSON@PURCCVM.BITNET Krannert Graduate School of Management Purdue University