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    > Hi Charlie,
    >
    > recutils-1.7 on Debian 3.2.78-1 i686 GNU/Linux. It installed ok, but
    > gave warnings on "make test". These disappeared on installing the
    > packages I mentioned.
    
    Colin et al.,
    
    All this talk of recutils motivated me to try it again as I do have a
    task that would benefit from this, currently managed using org
    properties but unwieldy as a result.
    
    However, I cannot get it working in emacs.  There is a (setq) line in
    rec-mode that is ill-formed and I cannot navigate through a database.  I
    am using

You could try to use rec-mode.el from the git version of recutils, as it
contains several fixes since the 1.7 release:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/recutils.git/tree/etc/rec-mode.el