IBP banding data system: emacs customizations |  |
IBP banding data system: emacs customizations | |
The functionality of this package boils down to two emacs functions that are intended to bound to specific keys:
ibp-ditto duplicates the corresponding
field on the previous line. For example, in the time
field, it finds the time field on the previous line (if
any), and copies that time to the current field.
This function is typically bound to the tab key.
ibp-tab moves to the end of the current
field. If the current field is not full, it also
supplies default content. For example, in the
age/how-aged fields of a banding record, this function
fills in the default content "0 ", which means unknown age
and two blank how-codes.
This function is typically bound to C-^ (control-shift-6).
This package assumes that a global vector named ibp-field-list to have been loaded. That vector
describes the fields in the encounter line, so that the
tab and duplicate function know which groups of characters
on the line are considered a field. For the files that
define this vector, see Section 4, “Top-level modules”.
Some definitions:
The part of the record up to, but not including, the species code. In general, this includes the encounter code and the band number. For recap lines, the encounter code may be omitted. The band number may be either all nine characters, or just the last two.
The fixed-format part of the record following the head. For the purposes of this package, the net field is the last field in the record. Data after that may be missing, and tab and duplicate functions are of little or no use.
This terminology differs from that used in the internal specification: in that document, the fixed-format part of the record is called the body, while the fields following the net field are called the tail.