X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: xemacs forms not like emacs forms Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:00:46 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Rockefeller, Harry" To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id l3IHB4AR001366 I define a user function to move between fields in my form (record): (defun hr-tocol (target &optional fill) "Produces a string to skip to column TARGET. Prepends newline if needed. The optional FILL should be a character, used to fill to the column." (if (null fill) (setq fill ? )) (if (< target (current-column)) (concat "\n" (make-string target fill)) (make-string (- target (current-column)) fill))) I use it in the forms-format-list list like this: "\nJob Number: " 2 '(hr-tocol 33) "Next Major Milestone and date: " 4 "\n Name: " 3 '(hr-tocol 33) "Number of milestones missed: " 5 '(hr-tocol 33) "Hours behind schedule: " 6 It runs correctly in emacs but not xemacs. I get this error in xemacs when I try to save the form: Parse error: not looking at 'Number of milestones missed: ' I can force the save to succeed by editing field 3 to have no whitespace, but then that breaks starting up the forms mode the next time. It only loads the last record up to field 3. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/