Re: Updated Emacs package, syntax highlighting, new name

Michael Smith <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.refdb.devel
Message-ID <20031217035937.GB2112@theThirdPoliceman>
Hi Markus,

You wrote:

[...]

> 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?

A workaround to try for now is just to specify two percent signs instead
of one -- i.e., "%%" instead of "%". The double-percent-sign is the way
of escaping it in Emacs so that the format and message functions don't
try to expand it.

  --Mike
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