Miscellaneous Top Long Example
This section describes all error messages which can be generated by
forms mode. Error messages that result from parsing the control file
all start with the text `Forms control file error
'. Messages
generated while analyzing the definition of forms-format-list
start with `Forms format error
'.
Forms control file error: `forms-file' has not been set
|
The variable |
Forms control file error: `forms-number-of-fields' has not been set
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The variable |
Forms control file error: `forms-number-of-fields' must be a number > 0
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The variable |
Forms control file error: `forms-field-sep' is not a string
Forms control file error: `forms-multi-line' must be nil or a one-character string
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The variable |
Forms control file error: `forms-multi-line' is equal to 'forms-field-sep'
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The variable |
Forms control file error: `forms-new-record-filter' is not a function
Forms control file error: `forms-modified-record-filter' is not a function
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The variable has been set to something else than a function. |
Forms control file error: `forms-format-list' is not a list
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The variable |
Forms format error: field number xx out of range 1..nn
|
A field number was supplied in |
Forms format error: fun is not a function
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The first element of a list which is an element of
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Forms format error: invalid element xx
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A list element was supplied in |
Warning: this record has xx fields instead of yy
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The number of fields in this record in the data file did not match
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Multi-line fields in this record - update refused!
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The current record contains newline characters, hence can not be written
back to the data file, for it would corrupt it. Probably you inserted a
newline in a field, while |
Field separator occurs in record - update refused!
|
The current record contains the field separator string inside one of the fields. It can not be written back to the data file, for it would corrupt it. Probably you inserted the field separator string in a field. |
Record number xx out of range 1..yy
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A jump was made to non-existing record xx. yy denotes the number of records in the file. |
Stuck at record xx
|
An internal error prevented a specific record from being retrieved. |
No write access to
|
An attempt was made to enable edit mode on a file that has been write protected. |
Search failed: regexp
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The regexp could not be found in the data file. Forward searching is done from the current location until the end of the file, then retrying from the beginning of the file until the current location. Backward searching is done from the current location until the beginning of the file, then retrying from the end of the file until the current location. |
Wrapped
|
A search completed successfully after wrapping around. |
Warning: number of records changed to nn
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Forms mode's idea of the number of records has been adjusted to the number of records actually present in the data file. |
Problem saving buffers?
|
An error occurred while saving the data file buffer. Most likely, Emacs did ask to confirm deleting the buffer because it had been modified, and you said `no'. |