Guys, I've been using Emacs for about 20 years, but I'm only now starting to seriously explore the Org-mode, since I read about the new citation options. I'd like to report my initial experience since maybe this could lead to some amendments to the manual?
Anyway: I installed Org 9.5 from Melpa in Emacs 27.1. I proceeded through the 'Installation' part in the online manual, so the only things I put into .emacs were the rudimentary keybindings. I then switched to the 15.1 Citations chapter and created a file the first line of which pointed to my library.bib. The introduction to chapter 15 says 'The included “basic” processor provides all four capabilities.' (w.r.t. 'activate', 'follow', 'insert', 'export'). I thus assumed that the basic processor was included. However, org-cite-insert ended with 'Unknown processor basic'. After reading the list I put "(use-package oc-basic)" in my .emacs. Since then I can get the citations to appear in my org file. So that's one thing that could be helpful to new users: even though the citation processors are included, you have to manually enable them in the .emacs, e.g. using use-package. [If I'm wrong, please correct me, I'm new to this and I'm trying to help.] Another thing: the way the citations work is inconsistent for me at this point. In some cases, a click on a citation opens my library.bib at the relevant entry. In other cases, nothing happens (i.e. nothing that I can see.) On what could this depend? Ideally I'd like a click on a citation to open the PDF whose location is stored in the 'file' field of the .bib entry: is there an easy way to achieve this? [I've tried various ways of doing this in the last 10+ years, including org-ref, RefTex etc., but am I correct in assuming that currently the idea is that one should only use the Org-mode for such things?] Thanks to everyone involved for their hard work! Best regards, Leszek Wronski
