Re: How to edit with forms-mode a table from MySQL?

[Robert Pollard]

Hi R.,

I have posted a question about forms and haven't received an answer 
yet.  I am having trouble with creating new records or editing them.  
It indicates the file is not writable.  Although I toggle the read only 
mode and made sure I am the owner of the file it still does not allow 
me to write to it.  I try to insert a record and it tells me the file 
cannot be changed because it is read only.
If you get any responses from your post please let me know.

I believe there is a way to convert the field delimiters to something 
that isn't used like ^K.   It sounds like you will also have to allow 
multiple line fields in your control definitions.

I don't know all the details but it sounds doable.

HTH,

Robert Pollard

On Wednesday, May 21, 2003, at 09:41 AM, R. Readi wrote:

> Dear Sirs!
>
> I have a table exported from a database (I think MySQL) and want to 
> edit
> it with emacs forms-mode. Although this should be a very usual thing, I
> dont think I can do it without some (more or less trivial) elisp
> programming. I wanted to ask you here if you know a more direct way
> before I begin writing programms.
>
> The rows (records) of the tables are separated as DOS separate lines
> (with ^M^J), the collumns (fields) are separated with commas and their
> contents are quoted with the double-quote-symbol (") at the beginning
> and the end. The problem I see: some fields contain commas, line-feeds
> (^J) and even double-quotes-symbols (not followed by comma).
>
> I would thank you any hint,
> Rodrigo Readi
> (scire_AT_web_DOT_de).
>
>
>
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