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 Forms Mode
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 Forms mode is an Emacs major mode for working with simple textual data
 bases in a forms-oriented manner.  In Forms mode, the information in
 these files is presented in an Emacs window in a user-defined format,
 one record at a time.  The user can view records or modify their
 contents.
 
    Forms mode is not a simple major mode, but requires two files to do
 its job: a control file and a data file.  The data file holds the actual
 data to be presented.  The control file describes how to present it.
 
    This file documents Forms mode, a form-editing major mode for GNU
 Emacs.
 
    Copyright © 1989, 1997, 2001–2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
      Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
      document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
      Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software
      Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover Texts
      being “A GNU Manual,” and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a)
      below.  A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
      “GNU Free Documentation License”.
 
      (a) The FSF’s Back-Cover Text is: “You have the freedom to copy and
      modify this GNU manual.”

 
· Forms Example               An example: editing the password data base.
· Entering and Exiting Forms Mode
                                 How to visit a file in Forms mode.
· Forms Commands              Special commands to use while in Forms mode.
· Data File Format            How to format the data file.
· Control File Format         How to control forms mode.
· Format Description          How to define the forms layout.
· Modifying Forms Contents    How to modify.
· Miscellaneous               Forms mode messages and other remarks.
· Error Messages              List of error messages forms mode can produce.
· Long Example                A more complex control file example.
· Credits                     Thanks everyone.
· GNU Free Documentation License The license for this documentation.
· Index                       Index to this manual.

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