Re: [bug-recutils] Expand external descriptor to include a typedef unique to one file

[Charles Millar]

Hi Jose,

On 10/12/2015 09:27 AM, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
> Hi Charles.
>
>      I have many files (emacs) in which I call an external descriptor
>      
>      %rec: Finance /mnt/Data/ActiveFiles/Finance.rec
>      
>      In the external descriptor I have typedef: Schedules_t foo bar
>      
>      For one file is it possible to expand typedef: Schedlues_t to include
>      baz, where baz is unique to that one file, such as
>      
>      %rec: Finance /mnt/Data/ActiveFiles/Finance.rec
>      %typedef: Schedules_t enum baz
>      
>      The above results in an error when I "recfix"  the file, so I suspect
>      that, if it is possible, the only way to this is to  somehow cat the
>      additional typedef onto the external descriptor.
>      
> Hmmm.  Your example raises "error: invalid typedef specification"
> because "foo bar" is not a valid type spec.
In the original post I forgot to type in the %; in the external 
descriptor it is

%typedef: (etc)
> Regarding the extension of enumerates, I am afraid it is not currently
> supported.
I suspected this; so I set fields which are associated with a particular 
file using


%allowed:
%typedef:
%type:

after the initial %rec: line

Thanks.

Charlie