Re: [Ebib-users] save virtual database or new feature?

[Piter_ <x....@gm...>]

Hi Joost.
Thanks for your reply.
Yes to add it will be easy to add new "drawer" field. But I have
realized that virtual database cannot be edited. Is it possible to
make some workarround it? Without this my idea will not be much
useful.
Thanks.
Petro

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Joost Kremers
<joo...@fa...> wrote:
> Hi Petro,
>
> sorry for the late reply, I haven't been reading my mail for the past few days...
>
>> Virtual databases can be created for some keywords, but sometimes one
>> wants to sort articles in the different manner.
>> Is it possible to make the following:
>> add a "drawer" field into entry, which contains a keywords names for
>> different drawers.
>
> I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "drawers". Do you mean you'd like to add
> another field called "drawers"? That's pretty easy, you can do that by
> configuring the variable ebib-additional-fields. Of course, that doesn't give
> you a menu.
>
>> now one can define a function add-to-drawer  which upon execution
>> shows menu with all available drawers in current database, plus
>> possibility to create (add) new drawer. The menu similar to ispell
>> menu.
>>
>> (1)topic1(2)topuc2)(c)create new
>>
>> or something like this.
>> similar function remove-from-drawer, and show the drawer which uses
>> virtual database feature to show references from different drawers.
>
> I'm not sure how the virtual databases come in here... Could you explain a bit
> more about how this functionality should work? If it's possible to implement it,
> I'd be happy to see what I can do.
>
> HTH
>
> Joost
>
>
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