[Ebib-users] 'ebib-file-search-dirs' documentation suggestion

[Robbie M. <ro...@ac...>]

Hello Joost, others

I just spent a bit of time trying to get 'ebib' to read
my BibTeX files.  You'll see why shortly.

With regard to the following documentation:

  File Search Dirs

  Default value: ~.

  List of directories that Ebib searches for
  files. Note that searching is not recursive: only the
  files listed here are searched, not their
  subdirectories.

I took this to mean BibTeX files and duly set up the
following:

  (setq ebib-file-search-dirs
        "~/path/to/bib/files")
  (setq ebib-preload-bib-files
        (list "1.bib"
              "2.bib"))

This failed and after reading 'ebib.el' I can see why.
For the record, what is needed is this:

  (setq ebib-preload-bib-files
        (list "~/path/to/bib/files/1.bib"
              "~/path/to/bib/files/2.bib"))

Maybe the documentation could emphasis the files
mentioned are files for viewing and not files for
reading.

Many thanks for offering this project.  It suits
my needs well and the code looks beautiful.

Robbie
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