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1. ebib: bug? (Thomas A. Schmitz)
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:01:15 +0200
From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Ebib-users] ebib: bug?
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OK, since a mail I wrote a couple of days ago wound up on this list,
I also subscribed. I've been working on and off with ebib for a
couple of days now, and I like much of what I see. An option to sort
the database would be nice to have, but the quick tab completion is
very welcome and impressive. I have one possible and quite serious
bug to report and one suggestion.
OK, first the bug: In emacs bibtex-mode, dates are stored as raw
strings. If such a year is the last value of a bibtex entry, the last
sign in the line is the right brace closing the entire entry, like so:
@article{name,
author = ZZZ,
title = ZZZ,
year = 1999}
If I open a database with such entries with ebib, edit and save, it
will have modified this entry like so:
@article{name,
author = ZZZ,
title = ZZZ,
year = 199
}
It inserts a newline before the closing brace and gobbles the last
character of the date. I hope you'll agree that this is a serious bug
- I have just realized that ebib corrupted an entire bib file this
way. Fortunately, there are backups, but I would appreciate if this
could be fixed...
Now the suggestion: I mainly use ConTeXt for TeXing. Would it be
possible to add defuns for the ConTeXt commands \cite[] and \nocite[]
instead of the usual LaTeX \cite{} syntax? I have inserted this by
simple copy-and-paste into ebib.el; there is certainly a more elegant
way of doing this:
--- ebib.el 2006-08-18 13:50:58.000000000 +0200
+++ ebib.el.new 2006-09-19 16:57:16.000000000 +0200
@@ -2187,6 +2187,49 @@
(when key
(insert (format "{%s}" key)))))))))
+
+(defun ebib-insert-context-bibtex-key ()
+ "Inserts a BibTeX key at POINT, surrounded by braces.
+
+The user is prompted for a BibTeX key and has to choose one from the
+database of the current LaTeX file, or from the current database if
there
+is no \\bibliography command. Tab completion works."
+ (interactive)
+ (if (null ebib-databases)
+ (error "No database loaded")
+ (let ((db (ebib-get-local-database)))
+ (cond
+ ((null db)
+ (error "Database %s not loaded." ebib-local-bibtex-filename))
+ ((= (hash-table-count (edb-database db)) 0)
+ (error "No entries in database %s" ebib-local-bibtex-filename))
+ (t
+ (let* ((collection (ebib-create-collection (edb-database db)))
+ (key (completing-read "Key to insert: " collection nil
t nil ebib-minibuf-hist)))
+ (when key
+ (insert (format "\\cite[%s]" key)))))))))
+
+(defun ebib-insert-context-nocite-key ()
+ "Inserts a BibTeX key at POINT, surrounded by braces.
+
+The user is prompted for a BibTeX key and has to choose one from the
+database of the current LaTeX file, or from the current database if
there
+is no \\bibliography command. Tab completion works."
+ (interactive)
+ (if (null ebib-databases)
+ (error "No database loaded")
+ (let ((db (ebib-get-local-database)))
+ (cond
+ ((null db)
+ (error "Database %s not loaded." ebib-local-bibtex-filename))
+ ((= (hash-table-count (edb-database db)) 0)
+ (error "No entries in database %s" ebib-local-bibtex-filename))
+ (t
+ (let* ((collection (ebib-create-collection (edb-database db)))
+ (key (completing-read "Key to insert: " collection nil
t nil ebib-minibuf-hist)))
+ (when key
+ (insert (format "\\nocite[%s]" key)))))))))
+
+
(defun ebib-entry-summary ()
"Shows the fields of the key at POINT.
Thomas
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