Hi John,

Thanks for the message! I’ve downloaded CKEditor version 4.22, since newer versions are no longer fully open source and come with restrictive licensing.  I now have the full CKEditor 4.22 package locally, but I’m not quite sure what the next step is. Should I place it somewhere specific in the ELOG directory structure or modify one of the templates to enable it? Any pointers on how to connect it properly to ELOG would be very helpful.

I am finding that '%s' passed to a $shell(...) command must be escaped when calling from Preset on reply, but not when calling Preset new.  Example:

[tickler]
Comment = Automated Tickler List Experiment
Attributes = Blurb, TickleDate
Type TickleDate = date
Required Attributes = Blurb
Preset TickleDate = $shell(date -d 'now + 30 days' '+%s')
Preset on reply TickleDate = $shell(date -d 'now + 30 days' '+%%s')
Date Format = %Y-%m-%d

Note that I have to escape the Preset on Reply's shell command argument with double percent signs, but not on Preset new.  The configuration I have provided here does work and correctly overrides the output per the Date Format spec.  This scenario should be easy to reproduce.

It could be I am doing something incorrectly, but it seems to me that there is no reason why the calls should need to be handled differently.  I can live with this for the moment, but I do hope it is fixed in a later release so that $shell calls have consistent syntax and semantics.

> Try this URL
> 
> http://midas.psi.ch/elogdemo/Forum/?cmd=Search

Ok, has been fixed. Will be included in the next version.

> The mode (i.e. summary, threaded, full) should be kept for the
> last??? and past??? links on a page.
> 
> For instance:
> 
> http://midas.psi.ch/elogdemo/Linux/last10?mode=threaded
> 
> The last20 link on this page should also be in threaded mode.

Has been fixed. Will be included in next version.

> Try to submit the following message:
> 
> *** cut here ***
> -------------------------------------------------
> -------------------------------------------------
> -------------------------------------------------
> -------------------------------------------------
> *** cut here ***
> 
> In fact after the next line there were 4 lines with '-', but
> they were not accepted by elog:

Ok, also fixed. Updated version is at 

http://midas.psi.ch/cgi-bin/cvsweb/elog/elogd.c

Here is actually an example with '----' at the end:

-------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------

> The exit status of elog is always 1.  It should be zero for
> a successful submission.

Has been fixed in 2.0.4

> If a message is submitted via the elog command then the reply string '> ' 
is only inserted in the first line if a reply is made.
> This message was submitted with the following commandline:
> elog -v -h midas.psi.ch -p 80 -s elogdemo -l Forum -a "Icon=icon4.gif" -
a "Author=Heiko Scheit"  -a "Author Email=h.scheit@mpi-hd.mpg.de" -
a "Subject=elog submit problem" "...Message-text..."
> Please press the reply button to see the problem.

Has been fixed in 2.0.4 (as you can see from this entry). Please make sure 
not to submit too long lines via "elog". For browser submissions, the line 
length is limited to 78 characters, but not for "elog" submissions.

> When the option 'Reverse sort = 1' is used then the first entry
> is not displayed (ID=1) when threaded mode is requested.
> 
> Probably you can see the problem using this link and switching 
> on reverse sort.  
> 
> http://midas.psi.ch/elogdemo/Linux/last20?mode=threaded

Has been fixed in 2.0.4, have a look at

http://midas.psi.ch/elogdemo/Linux/last20?mode=threaded&reverse=1