Re: Emacs edit-pr interface...

[Rick Macdonald <rickm@vsl.com>]

On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Cristian Constantin wrote:

> Why does the Emacs (lisp) interface for 'edit-pr' give me the following
> message:
> 
> ______________________
> cd /usr/local/share/gnats/gnats-db/gnats-adm/
> nquery-pr --host gnats --user anonymous --passwd guest 
> nquery-pr: gnats: No such host
> 
> query-pr  exited abnormally with code 1 at Thu Dec  2 15:25:59
> ______________________
> 
> I've got to say that the 'normal' edit-pr works all right!
> 
> What is 'nquery-pr' and how do you configure it?? (host, passwd and so
> on?..)

nquery-pr is a batch program that talks to the gnatsd daemon across a
network. query-pr accesses gnats files directly on disk (or nfs).

These emacs variables are in gnats.el:

(defvar gnats:network-server "gnats"
  "*If non-nil, names the GNATS network server for remote queries and
editing.")

(defvar gnats:alias nil
  "*If non-nil, names the alias assigned to the GNATS database.")

(defvar gnats:userid "anonymous"
  "*Userid for accessing the GNATS network server for remote queries and
editing.")

(defvar gnats:password "guest"
  "*Password for accessing the GNATS network server for remote queries and
editing.")


If you don't have gnatsd set up, I think you would:

(setq gnats:network-server nil)

...RickM...