Yes, I can see that. Can you add a bugzilla request? I take it the idea would be to have a really, really simple dialog: You enter the key, period. Maybe we could also allow entering the before, after, etc. But mostly it'd be for quick entries of the key.
This would not be hard to do. The Model-View-Controller framework sees to that. rh Yu, James wrote: > Hi Richard, > > I know of the discussion---actually I raised that question recently. > But using a third helper utility to bridge Lyx and a bib management > app is one thing, having a quick way (what Tobias said > "one-key-stroke") to insert citations from clipboard is another. > > I think "insert-citation-in-one-key-stroke" method would be a very > useful, general feature, no matter what OS you are in. > > Thanks for providing the command buffer method. I tried it. It works > well. I am thinking if LyX could have a command > "citation-insert-from-clipboard", where you don't need to append > literally the citation key list, it also would be great. > > Thanks, > > James > > > > Richard Heck wrote: >> It would be possible for someone to write the necessary code to get >> reference pushing to work under windows, and there are work-arounds that >> have been discussed in the list---maybe it was the devel >> list---recently. How hard the code would be isn't obvious to me, but I >> don't use Windows and so obviously can't do it myself. >> >> Richard >> >> Yu, James wrote: >>> Hi Richard, >>> >>> I had the exact same question as Tobias'. >>> >>> In pure Windows environment (without cygwin), the communication >>> between the Java-based JabRef and Window-based LyX is not possible (or >>> not available yet). So, the immediate question is that: once in the >>> JabRef we select a set of citations and copy it to the system >>> clipboard, how do we quickly and agilely "insert" it to the LyX. >>> >>> Originally, I thought there could be a simple text field in the >>> citation insertion dialog, something like "insert from clipboard", >>> which would take whatever string in the system clipboard and insert it >>> to the Lyx. I am wondering whether this approach was ever considered >>> by the LyX team. >>> >>> Anyway, I am going to try out your method. Hope it serves the same >>> purpose nicely. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> James >>> >>> Richard Heck wrote: >>>> Tobias Krause wrote: >>>>> usually when I insert a citation I already have the complete >>>>> BibTeX-Key in the clipboard - is there a faster way to insert the >>>>> citation than clicking Insert -> Citation,...? >>>> Use the mini-buffer. The first time, you'll have to hit alt-x to focus >>>> it, type "citation-insert " and then paste the key. But the next time, >>>> you hit alt-x, up arrow (history), ctrl-shift-left-arrow (highlight >>>> the >>>> key), and paste. Of course, if you use the mini-buffer for something >>>> else, you may have to up-arrow a few more times. But it's faster than >>>> what you're doing. >>>> >>>> That said: If you've got the key in the clipboard...did you get it >>>> from >>>> somewhere that could push it through the lyxpipe? Or are you, >>>> sadly, on >>>> a system that doesn't do that? >>>> >>>> Richard >>>> >> >> -- ================================================================== Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://frege.brown.edu/heck/ ================================================================== Get my public key from http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de Hash: 0x1DE91F1E66FFBDEC Learn how to sign your email using Thunderbird and GnuPG at: http://dudu.dyn.2-h.org/nist/gpg-enigmail-howto
