Re: updated v1.3 Emacs menu

Bruce D'Arcus writes:
 > 
 > OK, a few things:
 > 
 > First, if I understand the output option, I should be able to go the 
 > menu, select, say, DocBook XML, run a search, and the DocBook output 
 > will show up in the buffer.  Is that right?  I'm not getting that 
 > behavior; I just get "screen."  Also, when I select the output type, I 
 > should get a visual indication - a check by the active output type.
 > 

This looks like a minor bug. The following patch fixes the problem (at
least for me):

--8<-----

--- refdb-menu.el.orig  Mon Dec  8 21:46:24 2003
+++ refdb-menu.el       Mon Dec  8 21:59:10 2003
@@ -316,9 +316,10 @@
   (if (not (eq (length refdb-menu-database) 0))
       (shell-command
        (format
-       "%s -d %s -C getref :%s:=%s"
+       "%s -d %s -t %s -C getref :%s:=%s"
        refdb-menu-refdbc-program-and-options
        refdb-menu-database
+       refdb-menu-output-type
        refdb-menu-current-field
        value)
        "*refdbc-output*" nil)
@@ -338,7 +339,7 @@
        "%s -d %s -t %s -C getref %s"
        refdb-menu-refdbc-program-and-options
        refdb-menu-database
-       (symbol-name refdb-menu-output-type)
+       refdb-menu-output-type
        searchstring)
        "*refdbc-output*" nil)
     (message "Error: No database specified.

--8<-----

Save this chunk to refdb-menu.el.diff in the same directory where
you've got refdb.menu.el and apply it like this:

patch -p 0 < refdb-menu.el.diff

regards
Markus

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Markus Hoenicka
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