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[Ebib-users] Could Ebib search and display based on a entry field?

[Guo Wei-W. <ww...@gm...>]

Dear all,

I just uses Ebib managing my BibTeX database. It's great. I find its
operation is similar to BBDB. BBDB can search and display connections
by a entry field. Could Ebib do that? For example, I want to define a
field called Category, which contain the research area. Then I can
find all the entries of a specified category and display them in a
buffer.

Thank you!
Wei-Wei

Re: [Ebib-users] Could Ebib search and display based on a entry field?

[Joost K. <joo...@fa...>]

Hi,

> I just uses Ebib managing my BibTeX database. It's great.

thanks! ;-)

> I find its
> operation is similar to BBDB. BBDB can search and display connections
> by a entry field. Could Ebib do that? For example, I want to define a
> field called Category, which contain the research area. Then I can
> find all the entries of a specified category and display them in a
> buffer.

mmm, that sounds interesting. it's certainly possible to implement
it. i think the best way to do it would be to create a "virtual"
database with the selected entries, which you can view and edit like
any normal database. the only difference would be that this database
is not saved to a file, but rather it's just a subset of another
database. any changes you make will then automatically be propagated
to the "parent" database.

looks like something OO would be perfect for... ;-)

suggestions on better/different ways to implement it are welcome.

-- 
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments

Re: [Ebib-users] Could Ebib search and display based on a entry field?

[Guo Wei-W. <ww...@gm...>]

Your way is better than I thought. And it will be better if the
Category field can
have multiple values (I don't mean multiline).

Wei-Wei


2006/11/7, Joost Kremers <joo...@fa...>:

> mmm, that sounds interesting. it's certainly possible to implement
> it. i think the best way to do it would be to create a "virtual"
> database with the selected entries, which you can view and edit like
> any normal database. the only difference would be that this database
> is not saved to a file, but rather it's just a subset of another
> database. any changes you make will then automatically be propagated
> to the "parent" database.
>
> looks like something OO would be perfect for... ;-)
>
> suggestions on better/different ways to implement it are welcome.
>
> --
> Joost Kremers
> Life has its moments

Re: [Ebib-users] Could Ebib search and display based on a entry field?

[Joost K. <joo...@fa...>]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 04:14:00PM +0800, Guo Wei-Wei wrote:
> Your way is better than I thought.

i'll see if i can implement it in a future version. i'm not sure yet
what the best way would be to let the user specify the selectional
criteria for the virtual database...

> And it will be better if the
> Category field can have multiple values (I don't mean multiline).

well, when it comes to field values, i'm of course limited by what
bibtex will accept. AFAIK bibtex only allows simple text values, it's
not possible to have some hierarchical structure or something like
that. so if you want multiple values in a field, all you can really do
is make a comma-separated list or something, i'm afraid...

-- 
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments