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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 15:03:40 +0100
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On Tuesday,  5 Apr 2016 at 14:04, Colin Baxter wrote:

[...]

> 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

ii  recutils       1.7-1+b1     amd64        text-based databases called recfiles

on Debian testing.

How do others actually create and manage the rec databases in Emacs?

Thanks,
eric

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: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.92.1, Org release_8.3.4-668-g809a83