Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!news.cs.indiana.edu!ariel.unm.edu!nmsu!opus!cshort From: cshort@nmsu.edu (Spmg*d, Lord of Potted Meat Product) Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer Subject: forms question Message-ID: Date: 10 Jan 91 23:22:52 GMT Sender: news@NMSU.Edu Distribution: comp Organization: Computing Research Lab Lines: 20 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