Re: [Ebib-users] searching across multiple real databases

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

Hello Joost, all

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To:           ebi...@li...
Subject:      Re: [Ebib-users] searching across multiple real databases
Message-ID:  <20120818172751.GA24409@Darkstar>
From:         Joost Kremers <joo...@fa...>
Date:         Sat, 18 Aug 2012 19:27:51 +0200
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> hi robbie,
>
>> This posting relates to searching across multiple
>> databases.  Unless I have misread the
>> documentation badly (always a possibility), basic
>> emacs-based searches and advanced searching
>> (resulting in virtual databases) are only
>> possible within the one database.  Is this
>> correct?
>
> yup.
>
>> I would like to work across six BibTeX files.
>
> i once though i'd do that to, so i added the
> possibility to work with more than one .bib file to
> ebib. but then i found it more practical to keep all my
> biblography entries in one file... ;-)
>
> anyway, i never thought about searching across more
> than one file, but it can certainly be useful.
>
>> My questions are two-fold:
>>
>>    * is this functionality needed ?
>
> well, *you* need it, so that would be a yes. ;-)
>
>>    * is this functionality possible ?
>
> i don't see why not. the question one needs to ask is
> what would be the best way to do it? IIUC, you want to
> create a union db, which is like a virtual db, but
> which still allows a virtual db to be created from it,
> right? that would probably be the most straightforward
> way, and not too difficult to implement.

That is correct (although I am still struggling with
the terminology).

> a few comments to your patch

[snip: patch plus many comments]

> anyway, it should definitely be possible to do what you
> suggest, and if you hack up some code, i'd definitely
> be interested in adding it to ebib.

I'll see what I can do in the next fortnight.  If
anyone on this list has suggestions (usability,
code), please feel free to chip in.

regards, Robbie

> best,
>
> joost
>
> --
> Joost Kremers
> Life has its moments

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