Re: [Ebib-users] elisp function to start ebib on specified bibtex entry

[Ali T. <ali...@gm...>]

Hi Joost,

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 08:15, Joost Kremers <joo...@fa...> wrote:
> In fact, I'm considering whether it wouldn't make more sense to just let the
> main function `ebib' take an optional argument. It would function much the same
> way as `ebib-start-on-entry', except that if you call `ebib' without any
> argument, it just starts Ebib the way it does now. (So it wouldn't ask you on
> which entry you want to start. It would still be possible to get that
> functionality by calling `ebib' with a prefix argument.) I'm guessing you're not
> going to use `ebib-start-on-entry' interactively, are you? In that case, I think
> I should just include the functionality in the function `ebib' itself, rather
> than have a special function for it.

No, I'm not planning to use the function interactively. I think it
makes a lot of sense to just extend the functionality of 'ebib'. Makes
for a very clean interface imo.

>> I'll let you know once I set things up with org-mode.
>
> Yeah, that would be great. :-)

I have now set up the connection between org-mode and ebib and it
works great! It was easier than I had anticipated. I just added three
lines to my .emacs:

(org-add-link-type "ebib" 'org-ebib-open)
(defun org-ebib-open (path)
    (ebib-start-on-entry path))

Now I can insert ebib links like this: [[ebib:Jones1998][some paper
title]] and open them in ebib by opening the link in org-mode.

I'm planning to write about this on the org-mode mailing list. Do you
want me to wait until you have rewritten the 'ebib' function?

Cheers,
/Ali