cshort@nmsu.edu (Spmg*d, Lord of Potted Meat Product) (01/11/91)
help i am trying to use forms with emacs and not having much luck at it i'm trying to define a field seperator with the statement (setq forms-field-sep "$") it's ignoring that and telling me that my record has only one field. any ideas or example code i can tear apart would be appreciated. thanks much chris cshort@nmsu.edu
walt@bcarh133.uucp (Walt Sullivan) (01/11/91)
In article <CSHORT.91Jan10162252@haywire.nmsu.edu> cshort@nmsu.edu (Spmg*d, Lord of Potted Meat Product) writes: > i am trying to use forms with emacs and not having much luck at it > i'm trying to define a field seperator with the statement > (setq forms-field-sep "$") > it's ignoring that and telling me that my record has only one > field. any ideas or example code i can tear apart would be > appreciated. First, this posting probably belongs in the "gnu.emacs.help" newsgroup. Second, if the forms-field-sep variable expects a regular expression, your "$" doesn't mean the character "dollar-sign", it means "end-of-line". Try using (setq forms-field-sep "\\$"). Where did you get the forms package for Emacs (which Emacs?)? -- Walt Sullivan BITNET: walt@BNR.CA (work) UUCP: walt@orbit.amiga.OCUnix.on.ca (home)