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

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

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