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[Daniel Andor <address@hidden>]

Hi,

I've searched the list but find no mention of this topic, so here goes.

I'm trying to implement a rudimentary integration with RCS, so I can version 
control my texmacs documents.  This involves adding a few menu points to do 
check-in/out etc, and some way of storing the $Id$ etc variables in the text 
file, which I like to see in my documents.

Has anyone worked on integrating RCS/CVS before?

So I have a few related questions:

1) Emacs has a nice way of opening a small multi-line buffer for you to type 
your log text into.  Is there a way to do this in texmacs?

2) I need to shell escape the log text argument. To do this I wanted to use 
the (regexp-substitute/global ...) procdeures from guile, but they don't seem 
to exist in texmacs!  OTOH, (make-regexp ..) does work, so I don't 
understand.  Which guile procedures are or aren't available, in general?

3) My idea was to use a variable to store the $Id$ tag, and then this 
variable 
can be accessed at other points in the document.  I use (make-assign "RCSID" 
"$Id$") to insert the assignment into the document when you click on the 
appropriate menu item.  But there isn't a (make-value ...), so I'm using 
(make-active "value" 1) and then (insert-string "RCSID") to insert that in.  
Is this the correct way?  I couldn't find any documentation.

4) The $Id$ tag can grow quite long, and it needs to be on a single line for 
RCS to recognise it correctly. So I need to prevent the possibility of line 
breaks in the source file, which texmacs automatically adds when saving. Is 
there a way to keep a chunk of text on one line? I was thinking verbatim, in 
which case how do I add a verbatim tag? (make-active "verbatim" ...)?

Thanks,

Daniel.