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1. Re: Configuration of Ebib with ebibrc (Joost Kremers)
2. Re: Configuration of Ebib with ebibrc (Phil and Marlene Carter)
3. Re: Configuration of Ebib with ebibrc (Phil and Marlene Carter)
4. Re: Configuration of Ebib with ebibrc (Joost Kremers)
5. configure external PDF viewer (Iliya Lefterov)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 11:01:41 +0200
From: Joost Kremers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Ebib-users] Configuration of Ebib with ebibrc
To: "Discussion of issues relating to Ebib."
<[email protected]>
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Hi Phil,
> What do you mean by what does
>
>> (file-name-directory ebib-keywords-file)
>
> say? I tried evaluating this expression, but I didn't get any result.
How did you evaluate it? You should have Ebib running, then go to the
*scratch* buffer, type (or copy&paste) the expression and press C-j.
Better yet, before you do that, type `ebib-keywords-file` in the
*scratch* buffer and press C-j.
This is the output I get when I do that:
ebib-keywords-file
"~/Copy/Work/Bibtex/ebib.keywords"
(file-name-directory ebib-keywords-file)
"~/Copy/Work/Bibtex/"
Yours should be similar.
The thing is, given that `ebib-keywords-file` seems to be set, the only
way `ebib--keywords-files-alist` could be nil is if the function
`file-name-directory` for some reason doesn't produce the correct
output.
> I get the wrong type argument after pressing 'K s'.
Yes, that makes sense. Ebib tries to push the keywords in the keywords
field of the current entry onto `ebib--keywords-files-alist`, but since
that variable is nil, it cannot do that.
Best,
Joost
--
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 08:55:33 +1000
From: Phil and Marlene Carter <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Ebib-users] Configuration of Ebib with ebibrc
To: "Discussion of issues relating to Ebib."
<[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Hi Joost,
What I did first up was to copy (file-name-directory ebib-keywords-file) into
the scratch buffer, mark it, then M-x eval-region.
But using C-j here is what I get:
ebib-keywords-file
"/Users/carters/.emacs.d/ebib-keywords.txt"
(file-name-directory ebib-keywords-file)
"/Users/carters/.emacs.d/"
which all seems to be correct.
I wondered whether there was something in my init.el that was throwing ebib
off, so I created a temporary init.el with nothing in it except lines related
to ebib. No change.
I am getting to the point here where I am feeling guilty for wasting your time.
The thing that attracted me to Ebib was the keywords facility, if I can't it to
work I may have to try another method.
Phil
On 02/10/2015, at 7:01 PM, Joost Kremers wrote:
> Hi Phil,
>
>> What do you mean by what does
>>
>>> (file-name-directory ebib-keywords-file)
>>
>> say? I tried evaluating this expression, but I didn't get any result.
>
> How did you evaluate it? You should have Ebib running, then go to the
> *scratch* buffer, type (or copy&paste) the expression and press C-j.
>
> Better yet, before you do that, type `ebib-keywords-file` in the
> *scratch* buffer and press C-j.
>
> This is the output I get when I do that:
>
> ebib-keywords-file
> "~/Copy/Work/Bibtex/ebib.keywords"
> (file-name-directory ebib-keywords-file)
> "~/Copy/Work/Bibtex/"
>
> Yours should be similar.
>
> The thing is, given that `ebib-keywords-file` seems to be set, the only
> way `ebib--keywords-files-alist` could be nil is if the function
> `file-name-directory` for some reason doesn't produce the correct
> output.
>
>> I get the wrong type argument after pressing 'K s'.
>
> Yes, that makes sense. Ebib tries to push the keywords in the keywords
> field of the current entry onto `ebib--keywords-files-alist`, but since
> that variable is nil, it cannot do that.
>
> Best,
>
> Joost
>
>
>
> --
> Joost Kremers
> Life has its moments
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> _______________________________________________
> Ebib-users mailing list
> [email protected]
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ebib-users
>
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 10:38:32 +1100
From: Phil and Marlene Carter <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Ebib-users] Configuration of Ebib with ebibrc
To: "Discussion of issues relating to Ebib."
<[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Hi Joost,
I've got some more things to throw into the Ebib ring.
I have been trying out per-directory keywords. here is my ebibrc file:
; ebibrc
; configuration file for ebib
; see Ebib manual for details
; created 2015-09-06, by Phil Carter
; change default entry type to book
; added 2015-09-06
(setq ebib-default-entry-type "Book")
; 2015-10-05
; single keywords file
(setq ebib-keywords-file "ebib-keywords.txt")
I opened up a bib file with this configuration, then evaluated some of the
expressions you have referred to. Here are the results:
ebib-keywords-file
"ebib-keywords.txt"
(file-name-directory ebib-keywords-file)
nil
ebib--keywords-files-alist
(("/Users/carters/fh-phil/Book/bib/" ("pm" "minmi" "queanbeyan" "nundle"
"maitland" "newcastle" "afc" "ajc" "salvos" "smith" "writing" "temperance" ...)
nil))
The keywords file is correct.
I am not sure whether the file-name-directory should be nil.
The ebib--keywords-files-alist returns the correct directory for my bib file,
but it has returned a list of the keywords from this file. Based on the name of
the variable I would have expected a list of one or more file names. Is this
the correct interpretation of this variable?
Thanks yet again,
Phil Carter
On 03/10/2015, at 8:55 AM, Phil and Marlene Carter wrote:
> Hi Joost,
>
> What I did first up was to copy (file-name-directory ebib-keywords-file) into
> the scratch buffer, mark it, then M-x eval-region.
>
> But using C-j here is what I get:
>
> ebib-keywords-file
> "/Users/carters/.emacs.d/ebib-keywords.txt"
>
> (file-name-directory ebib-keywords-file)
> "/Users/carters/.emacs.d/"
>
> which all seems to be correct.
>
> I wondered whether there was something in my init.el that was throwing ebib
> off, so I created a temporary init.el with nothing in it except lines related
> to ebib. No change.
>
> I am getting to the point here where I am feeling guilty for wasting your
> time. The thing that attracted me to Ebib was the keywords facility, if I
> can't it to work I may have to try another method.
>
> Phil
>
>
> On 02/10/2015, at 7:01 PM, Joost Kremers wrote:
>
>> Hi Phil,
>>
>>> What do you mean by what does
>>>
>>>> (file-name-directory ebib-keywords-file)
>>>
>>> say? I tried evaluating this expression, but I didn't get any result.
>>
>> How did you evaluate it? You should have Ebib running, then go to the
>> *scratch* buffer, type (or copy&paste) the expression and press C-j.
>>
>> Better yet, before you do that, type `ebib-keywords-file` in the
>> *scratch* buffer and press C-j.
>>
>> This is the output I get when I do that:
>>
>> ebib-keywords-file
>> "~/Copy/Work/Bibtex/ebib.keywords"
>> (file-name-directory ebib-keywords-file)
>> "~/Copy/Work/Bibtex/"
>>
>> Yours should be similar.
>>
>> The thing is, given that `ebib-keywords-file` seems to be set, the only
>> way `ebib--keywords-files-alist` could be nil is if the function
>> `file-name-directory` for some reason doesn't produce the correct
>> output.
>>
>>> I get the wrong type argument after pressing 'K s'.
>>
>> Yes, that makes sense. Ebib tries to push the keywords in the keywords
>> field of the current entry onto `ebib--keywords-files-alist`, but since
>> that variable is nil, it cannot do that.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Joost
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Joost Kremers
>> Life has its moments
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> _______________________________________________
>> Ebib-users mailing list
>> [email protected]
>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ebib-users
>>
>
>
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 10:15:46 +0200
From: Joost Kremers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Ebib-users] Configuration of Ebib with ebibrc
To: "Discussion of issues relating to Ebib."
<[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain
Hi Phil,
Now all the values appear as they should be. The expression
`(file-name-directory ebib-keywords-file)` should return nil in this
case, because the value of the variable `ebib-keywords-file` doesn't
have a directory part. Also, the value of ebib--keywords-files-alist has
the right value: it should contain a list of lists. Each sublist has
three elements: the first one is the path to the keywords file, the
second one a list of keywords from that file and the third one a list of
keywords added during the current session (which will be nil when you
just started Ebib).
So everything should be working now as advertised... I hope it does, but
if not, let me know and I'll see what I can do.
Best,
Joost
On Mo, Okt 05 2015, Phil and Marlene Carter <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Joost,
>
> I've got some more things to throw into the Ebib ring.
>
> I have been trying out per-directory keywords. here is my ebibrc file:
>
> ; ebibrc
> ; configuration file for ebib
> ; see Ebib manual for details
> ; created 2015-09-06, by Phil Carter
>
> ; change default entry type to book
> ; added 2015-09-06
> (setq ebib-default-entry-type "Book")
>
> ; 2015-10-05
> ; single keywords file
> (setq ebib-keywords-file "ebib-keywords.txt")
>
> I opened up a bib file with this configuration, then evaluated some of the
> expressions you have referred to. Here are the results:
>
> ebib-keywords-file
> "ebib-keywords.txt"
>
> (file-name-directory ebib-keywords-file)
> nil
>
> ebib--keywords-files-alist
> (("/Users/carters/fh-phil/Book/bib/" ("pm" "minmi" "queanbeyan" "nundle"
> "maitland" "newcastle" "afc" "ajc" "salvos" "smith" "writing" "temperance"
> ...) nil))
>
> The keywords file is correct.
>
> I am not sure whether the file-name-directory should be nil.
>
> The ebib--keywords-files-alist returns the correct directory for my bib file,
> but it has returned a list of the keywords from this file. Based on the name
> of the variable I would have expected a list of one or more file names. Is
> this the correct interpretation of this variable?
>
> Thanks yet again,
>
> Phil Carter
>
>
> On 03/10/2015, at 8:55 AM, Phil and Marlene Carter wrote:
>
>> Hi Joost,
>>
>> What I did first up was to copy (file-name-directory ebib-keywords-file)
>> into the scratch buffer, mark it, then M-x eval-region.
>>
>> But using C-j here is what I get:
>>
>> ebib-keywords-file
>> "/Users/carters/.emacs.d/ebib-keywords.txt"
>>
>> (file-name-directory ebib-keywords-file)
>> "/Users/carters/.emacs.d/"
>>
>> which all seems to be correct.
>>
>> I wondered whether there was something in my init.el that was throwing ebib
>> off, so I created a temporary init.el with nothing in it except lines
>> related to ebib. No change.
>>
>> I am getting to the point here where I am feeling guilty for wasting your
>> time. The thing that attracted me to Ebib was the keywords facility, if I
>> can't it to work I may have to try another method.
>>
>> Phil
>>
>>
>> On 02/10/2015, at 7:01 PM, Joost Kremers wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Phil,
>>>
>>>> What do you mean by what does
>>>>
>>>>> (file-name-directory ebib-keywords-file)
>>>>
>>>> say? I tried evaluating this expression, but I didn't get any result.
>>>
>>> How did you evaluate it? You should have Ebib running, then go to the
>>> *scratch* buffer, type (or copy&paste) the expression and press C-j.
>>>
>>> Better yet, before you do that, type `ebib-keywords-file` in the
>>> *scratch* buffer and press C-j.
>>>
>>> This is the output I get when I do that:
>>>
>>> ebib-keywords-file
>>> "~/Copy/Work/Bibtex/ebib.keywords"
>>> (file-name-directory ebib-keywords-file)
>>> "~/Copy/Work/Bibtex/"
>>>
>>> Yours should be similar.
>>>
>>> The thing is, given that `ebib-keywords-file` seems to be set, the only
>>> way `ebib--keywords-files-alist` could be nil is if the function
>>> `file-name-directory` for some reason doesn't produce the correct
>>> output.
>>>
>>>> I get the wrong type argument after pressing 'K s'.
>>>
>>> Yes, that makes sense. Ebib tries to push the keywords in the keywords
>>> field of the current entry onto `ebib--keywords-files-alist`, but since
>>> that variable is nil, it cannot do that.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Joost
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Joost Kremers
>>> Life has its moments
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Ebib-users mailing list
>>> [email protected]
>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ebib-users
>>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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--
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2017 10:35:23 -0500
From: Iliya Lefterov <[email protected]>
Subject: [Ebib-users] configure external PDF viewer
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Good morning,
I found Ebib extremely helpful and easy to configure on a Linux machine; on a
Mac platform, however I have a configuration problem: i couldn't find a way to
point to Skim as an external PDF viewer? in Ubuntu or Mint it is very easy -
evince or okular are found immediately and they work perfectly fine.
I know the problems with the Application folder in MacOS / command line/path,
but whatever i do with the location of Skim.app i always get the error message,
that ?Specified program for new process is a directory?
any idea how to fix it?
Thanks, and Happy New Year
-I.
--
Iliya Lefterov, MD, PhD
Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
[email protected]
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