Hello again,
Erich Waelde writes:
>
> Hello,
>
> anyone out there using records successfully ?
>
>
> I'm using
> ii emacs21 21.3+1-4 The GNU Emacs editor
> ii records-gnuemacs 1.4.9-3 Save and index notes in Emacs
> environment
> ii records-common 1.4.9-3 Save and index notes in Emacs
> environment
>
>
> I create a record and include a TODO in the body (as suggested in the info
> pages) in today's record file, say.
>
> The next day I 'records-goto-today' and press 'C-c / g' to trigger the
> function 'records-get-todo' (defined in records-util.el).
>
> It will fetch the subject of the record with the TODO item from yesterday
> correctly, but will fail to get the TODO item itself.
>
> *Messages* says:
> Wrote /home/ew/records/index
> Wrote /home/ew/records/dindex
> Symbol's value as variable is void: current-prefix-arg
>
<snip>
Someone pointed out offlist, that it should be
'prefix' rather than 'pre-fix' (note the '-')
However, find'ing /usr/share/emacs* and /etc/emacs* did not find a file
with that particular misspell.
So I turned back to sources. Here is what I did:
1. download records-1.5.0.tar.gz from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/records
as indicated in the bug reports on that site, the tar ball is
incomplete. So I downloaded
recordsadmin.in
records-vars.el.in
from online cvs
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/records/records/
2. umpacked all this into ~/emacs/records-1.5.0
3. cd ~/emacs/records-1.5.0
./configure
make
chmod 755 recordsadmin
I did _not_ install at this point.
4. clean out the old stuff
cd ~
mv records records.old
mv .emacs-records .emacs-records.old
./emacs/records-1.5.0/recordsadmin -i
5. *edit* .emacs-records to point to that local directory
. < (let ((f (expand-file-name "/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp")))
. ---
. > (let ((f (expand-file-name "/home/ew/emacs/records-1.5.0")))
6. emacs --no-site-file --no-init-file
within emacs "load-file" ~/.emacs-records
call records-goto-today
goto previous day
create record including a TODO item
save record
goto next day (== today again)
'C-c / g' , get-todos
and yapp, the TODO lines appear. No error message! :-)
Conclusions:
- this is not a solution, but a workaround
- the 1.5.0 tar ball is incomplete
- when carefully separating old (1.4.9) and new (1.5.0) stuff,
the problem reported above does not occur.
I decided to let the debian maintainer know this stuff, too, so
possibly a new package can be made.
Cheers,
Erich
