Re: [Bibdesk-users] Edit bibdesk generated files

2016-09-20 Thread Justin C. Walker 

On Sep 20, 2016, at 16:45 , Tom Frei wrote:

> I'm new to bibdesk and this mailing list. I like bibdesk so far, but I see it 
> doesn't like when I try to edit a generated bibtex file by hand with vim. If 
> I edit the file with vim and then later open it with bibdesk and make a 
> subsequent edit with bibdesk, it doesn't like it and overwrites the file and 
> omits my manual edit.  This is probably a feature that I don't recognize. 
> What's the workaround? What I'm trying to do is add the shortauthor field to 
> a bibtex entry. Thanks in advance!

A little more detail would help (unless Christian's answer gave you what you 
need).

What specific steps are involved?  Do you close the BibTeX .bib file when 
editing by hand?

FWIW, I frequently edit the .bib file by hand, and have no problems (except for 
those rare instances when I fubar the .bib file...).

Justin

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Re: [Bibdesk-users] Edit bibdesk generated files

2016-09-20 Thread Christiaan Hofman 

> On Sep 21, 2016, at 1:45, Tom Frei  wrote:
> 
> I'm new to bibdesk and this mailing list. I like bibdesk so far, but I see it 
> doesn't like when I try to edit a generated bibtex file by hand with vim. If 
> I edit the file with vim and then later open it with bibdesk and make a 
> subsequent edit with bibdesk, it doesn't like it and overwrites the file and 
> omits my manual edit.  This is probably a feature that I don't recognize. 
> What's the workaround? What I'm trying to do is add the shortauthor field to 
> a bibtex entry. Thanks in advance!
> 

What kind of manual edit do you mean? Do you mean edits to bibtex items. Those 
should just remain. But don’t edit them while open in two different editors at 
the same time. If you mean edits to other content of the file, that may be 
overwritten, as in bibtex that is basically just consider comments.

Christiaan

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