From: Niall Mansfield <gnu@barg.org.uk>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Example of how to handle multi-line records in Emacs forms mode (i.e. using forms.el) ?
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 18:30:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240630173032.GM13058@uit.co.uk> (raw)
Is it possible to handle multi-line records using Emacs forms mode?
For example, how would you handle something like this:
Title: GNU Emacs Manual
Author: Richard M. Stallman
Publisher: FSF
Location: home
Title: The Colour of Magic
Author: Terry Pratchett
Location: loaned
Title: Mio Cid
Author: Anonymous
Location: home
Title: chapters.gnu.org administration guide
Author: Nacho Gonzalez
Author: Jose E. Marchesi
Location: unknown
(which is taken from a tutorial example for GNU recutils).
I ask because the Forms Mode User's Manual
(https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/forms.html)
talks of "multi-line fields" ("Fields may contain text which
shows up in the forms in multiple lines") but I can't see
how to handle multi-line records.
Thanks,
Niall
next reply other threads:[~2024-06-30 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-06-30 17:30 Niall Mansfield [this message]
2024-07-01 11:42 ` Example of how to handle multi-line records in Emacs forms mode (i.e. using forms.el) ? Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-02 1:21 ` Jude DaShiell
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