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Re: [help-recutils] referencing records in another file
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Sebastian Fischmeister |
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Re: [help-recutils] referencing records in another file |
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Mon, 6 Jan 2014 14:21:06 -0500 |
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mu4e 0.9.9.6pre2; emacs 24.3.1 |
> Is it possible to reference records in another file through foreign
> keys? I see in the manual that you can have remote descriptors, but can
> you also reference the contents of another file? Something like an
> %include statement would be a simple solution for that.
>
> Hm, not at the moment, other than piping all the involved files to a
> recsel. At some point I thought of supporting an auto-load mechanism,
> where recsel would automatically open a file called FOO.rec every time a
> record of type FOO is referenced.
It would be a very nice feature. Especially, if it also supports remote
descriptors, so you can point to URLs; best of course with support for
basic authentication and https. libcurl would be good for that.
Sebastian