Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bwdls61.bnr.ca!bwdls58!leibniz!walt From: walt@bcarh133.uucp (Walt Sullivan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer Subject: Re: forms question Message-ID: Date: 11 Jan 91 14:16:00 GMT References: Sender: news@bwdls58.UUCP Distribution: comp Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada Lines: 21 In-reply-to: cshort@nmsu.edu's message of 10 Jan 91 23:22:52 GMT In article 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)