Re: [Ebib-users] feature request: searching online databases

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

Hi again, :-)

On Fri, Aug 31 2012, Mandar Mitra <man...@gm...> wrote:
> Certain bibliography managers e.g. jabref (which I couldn't get to work)
> promise a capability to search through online sources e.g. ACM Digital
> Library, Citeseer, Google Scholar, etc. for bibliographic information.
>
> Is there any plan to implement a similar feature in ebib? If not, do you
> think it would be worth trying?

Yes, I've been discussing this with someone else on the list... There
are no real plans to add such functionality, mainly because I don't have
much time to work on Ebib ATM. But it would definitely be a good thing
to have, so you do come up with some code, I'd probably add it to Ebib.

> I know some Emacs Lisp, but nothing
> about its network programming aspect.

Well, Elisp is very well documented, so it shouldn't be too hard to
figure out. :-)

> ps: Sorry for back-to-back messages from a new user. I thought it best
>     not to mix topics.

No problem, I feel the same way.

Best,

Joost


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