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1. Re: Fwd: Keyword options greyed out (Joost Kremers)
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Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2017 09:57:11 +0200
From: Joost Kremers <[email protected]>
To: "Discussion of issues relating to Ebib."
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Ebib-users] Fwd: Keyword options greyed out
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Hi Phil,
I looked into your problem a bit more and what I found is this:
when I open a .bib file with keywords in it which aren't in the
keywords file, they are marked red. At this point, the options
'Save New Keywords For Database (K S)' and 'Save All New Keywords'
are indeed greyed out. The reason is that they only apply to
keywords that have been added since the .bib file was opened. If
you edit an entry and add a new keyword that's not in the
established list of keywords, these options should become active.
If this works for you as described, then everything is working as
intended, though I might need to polish the user-friendliness of
it all... Note that the current entry has keywords marked in red,
you can save them with `K s` (small `s`, that is). That command is
not in the menu, but I could add it. (I sometimes forget to update
the menu when I add new commands, because I never use it myself.)
If you have an existing .bib file with lots of keywords already,
it's of course cumbersome to save them all this way, because it
needs to be done for each entry individually. It should be
possible to come up with a function to go through the entire
database and save all keywords in one go. Let me know if you need
something like that and I'll see what I can do.
If things don't work for you the way I described here, there's a
bug somewhere and I'll need to do some more digging.
Best,
Joost
On Thu, Jun 29 2017, Marlene and Phil Carter wrote:
> Hi Joost,
>
> I seem have lost the reply you sent to this email. As I
> remember, you asked what version of Ebib I am using, and what
> happens when I type K S.
>
> I had some time away from Ebib, when I decided to try again, I
> updated my version to the most recent version from ELPA.
>
> When I type K S in the index buffer, nothing happens.
>
> I don?t know whether this has any bearing on my problem or not,
> but when I type C-c e to fire up Ebib, these messages appear in
> my *Messages* buffer, before I open a bib file:
>
> Error during redisplay: (eval (ebib--mode-line-modified-p))
> signaled (wrong-type-argument arrayp nil)
> Error during redisplay: (eval (format " (%s)"
> (ebib--get-dialect ebib--cur-db))) signaled (wrong-type-argument
> arrayp nil)
> Error during redisplay: (eval (ebib--mode-line-modified-p))
> signaled (wrong-type-argument arrayp nil)
> Error during redisplay: (eval (format " (%s)"
> (ebib--get-dialect ebib--cur-db))) signaled (wrong-type-argument
> arrayp nil)
>
> What is going on here?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Phil Carter
>
>
>
>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>> From: Marlene and Phil Carter <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Keyword options greyed out
>> Date: 27 June 2017 at 1:32:02 pm AEST
>> To: Ebib Users List <[email protected]>
>>
>> Hi Joost,
>>
>> I want to set up a consistent set of keywords across several
>> bib files in the same directory. I open a bib file, and I can
>> enter keywords, they appear in red, which is, I suppose, the
>> error face.
>>
>> I attempted to save the keywords, but I found that the menu
>> items:
>>
>> Save new Keywords For Database (K S), and
>>
>> Save All New Keywords
>>
>> are greyed out.
>>
>> I?ve put these 2 lines in my init.el:
>>
>> (setq ebib-bibtex-dialect 'biblatex)
>> (setq ebib-keywords-file "ebib-keywords.txt?)
>>
>> I thought that is allI needed.
>>
>> Why would these menu items be greyed out, and what can I do to
>> fix the problem?
>>
>> Thanks for your help,
>>
>> Phil Carter
>>
>>
>>
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