Re: [Refdb-devel] Updated Emacs package, syntax highlighting, new name

[Michael S. <sm...@xm...>]

Hi Markus,

You wrote:

> Michael Smith writes:
>  > It is now, by setting the refdb-output-type variable. What I meant was,
>  > the intial value for it in the defvar in the code is 'scrn. I was
>  > wondering if it should maybe be 'ris instead. Users could still
>  > configure it to have any initial value they want. It'd just be that, if
>  > they didn't configure it, it would default to 'ris instead of defaulting
>  > to 'scrn.
>  > 
> 
> Ah, I see. If I find some time tonight I'll have a look at that
> marvellous w3 mode. If there's a trick to display a buffer containing
> a HTML document with that mode, we might consider using the HTML
> output as a pretty-printed version instead. But I've got no idea
> whether this is going to work.

Well, we're not actually limited to using w3 mode. The code can write
the HTML output to a temp file, and then just have Emacs call
browse-url on that, which will in turn call whatever browser the user
has selected as his or her preferred browser.

I think users would probably prefer that rather than having it
hard-coded to display in w3 mode. The code wouldn't need to know or care
what their preferred browser is -- for users who had their preferred
browser set to w3, it'd send it to w3. Otherwise, whatever else they had
selected. I have my own Emacs set up to call Mozilla.

> 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.

  --Mike