Re: Updated Emacs package, syntax highlighting, new name

Hi Mike,

Michael Smith writes:
 > > BTW I've tested 1.5 on the weekend real quick. It was entirely broke
 > > for me but I didn't have the time to investigate this yet. I'll be
 > > back with fixes or at least a complete problem description asap.
 > 
 > OK -- thanks. Note that when I changed the name to "refdb-mode", I
 > changed every single variable name as well. So if you still have any
 > related config variables in your .emacs that you haven't updated to the
 > new names yet, that may be part of the problem.
 > 

I think I've figured it out. First of all, if I cut+paste the elisp
source from your mails, the backslash ends up as a funny Japanese
character. Updating from CVS fixes this problem.

Next, there is a small typo ("ID"vs "id") that apparently screws up
the ID queries, see the appended patch.

Finally, if I use sqlite as a backend (as I did in my preliminary test
yesterday), all queries for partial strings require a '%'. E.g. to
find the author entry 'Walsh,N.', you'll either have to type the full
string or use 'Walsh%'. However, the percent sign is interpreted
by a format call before it is sent to refdbc, and Emacs complains
about not getting enough arguments. Can you work around this issue?

regards,
Markus


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--- refdb-mode.el.orig	Mon Dec 15 22:59:06 2003
+++ refdb-mode.el	Tue Dec 16 00:10:01 2003
@@ -647,7 +647,7 @@
 (defun refdb-getref-by-id (id)
   "Display all RefDB datasets matching ID."
   (interactive (list (read-string (format "ID: "))))
-  (message (format "Getting datasets for ID %s ..." ID))
+  (message (format "Getting datasets for ID %s ..." id))
   (refdb-getref-by-field "ID" id)
   )