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Today's Topics:
1. Re: configure external PDF viewer (Joost Kremers)
2. Ebib not showing any menus (Erich Rast)
3. Re: Ebib not showing any menus (Joost Kremers)
4. Re: Ebib not showing any menus (Erich Rast)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 12:21:48 +0100
From: Joost Kremers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Ebib-users] configure external PDF viewer
To: "Discussion of issues relating to Ebib."
<[email protected]>
Cc: Iliya Lefterov <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Hi Iliya,
Yeah, MacOS is a bit different in that respect. I don't have
access to a Mac, so I can't test my suggestion, but I believe the
correct way to do it would be to use the 'open' command. If you
simply specify the 'open' command in 'ebib-file-associations',
then the pdf file will be opened with the default pdf reader on
your system. If that is set to Skim, then Skim will be used.
If you want to use Skim, even though it is not set as your default
pdf reader, then you'll need the latest version of Ebib (2.9,
which I pushed to Github just last night) and specify the
following as the command to execute:
open /Applications/Skim.app --args %s
Substitute the path to Skim.app with the actual location, of
course. The '%s' will be replaced with the path of the file you
want to open.
Note that on MacOS, /Applications/Skim.app is not actually an
executable file. It's actually a directory containing all the
files of the relevant program, so using that as the command to
execute won't work. You can open such applications from the
command line with 'open', however.
Hope this helps!
Best,
Joost
On Sat, Jan 07 2017, Iliya Lefterov wrote:
> 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.
--
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 10:26:13 +0000
From: Erich Rast <[email protected]>
Subject: [Ebib-users] Ebib not showing any menus
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <20170315102613.6a9f2f12@nemo-pny>
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Hi!
I've installed ebib via Melpa and it works when I load a .bib file and
use the shortcut keys. However, it does not show any menus in Emacs and
I cannot find any customization options. Does anyone have an idea
what's gone wrong?
Second question (related to the first): Since I cannot find the
customization options, how do I set the preload-bib-files option
programmatically in .emacs?
The second question is more important to me, since I'm not using the
menus very much anyway.
Best,
Erich
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IFILNOVA Institute of Philosophy
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1069-061 Lisbon, PORTUGAL
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:18:33 +0100
From: Joost Kremers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Ebib-users] Ebib not showing any menus
To: "Discussion of issues relating to Ebib."
<[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Hi Erich,
> I've installed ebib via Melpa and it works when I load a .bib
> file and
> use the shortcut keys. However, it does not show any menus in
> Emacs and
> I cannot find any customization options. Does anyone have an
> idea
> what's gone wrong?
Not sure what might have gone wrong. There should be a
customisation group 'ebib' (M-x customize-group RET ebib RET) and
a number of subgroups.
The menu only appears when Ebib is active, perhaps that's
confusing you?
Otherwise all I can suggest is to uninstall and reinstall Ebib,
and carefully check the output of the reinstallation (or post it
here).
> Second question (related to the first): Since I cannot find the
> customization options, how do I set the preload-bib-files option
> programmatically in .emacs?
You can simply use `setq':
(setq ebib-preload-bib-files '("/path/to/file1.bib"
"/path/to/file2.bib"))
Note the single quote before the list of paths and the lack of a
comma between the paths.
HTH
Joost
--
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:01:46 +0000
From: Erich Rast <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Ebib-users] Ebib not showing any menus
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <20170315140146.40c0725a@nemo-pny>
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:18:33 +0100
Joost Kremers <[email protected]> wrote:
?
>
> Not sure what might have gone wrong. There should be a
> customisation group 'ebib' (M-x customize-group RET ebib RET) and
> a number of subgroups.
>
> The menu only appears when Ebib is active, perhaps that's
> confusing you?
That's the thing, neither the menu nor the customization group is
present, but otherwise ebib runs fine (see screenshot). Running GNU
Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.18.9)
When I remove & reinstall ebib, it works once and then the
menu and customization disappears again. Maybe I'll try a manual
installation from the git source later.
Best,
Erich
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