[Ebib-users] Configuration of Ebib with ebibrc

[Phil a. M. C. <pan...@bi...>]

Hi Joost,

Thanks for taking the time to sort out my problem with multi-line buffers.

I have been playing with keywords, I have run into another problem.

I use Emacs on a laptop and a desktop; I have a single init.el file, synchronised through Dropbox so that I always have identical versions of Emacs. I want to set up per-directory lists; I wanted to do this with the ebibrc file, rather than customising each version of Emacs, so that they always stay the same.

I am unclear as to what commands I need to put into ebibrc to do this. Reading the documentation I got the impression the all I had to do was to name a file (ebib-keywords.txt, no path), and all would be well. This did not work, which could be due to my very limited understanding of Emacs Lisp. I thought too that it would be a good idea to set the option to always save and sort the keyword file on exit, but I need to have a file before I can sort/save it. I have attached my ebibrc file; I seem to have successfully changed the default entry type, but I am at a loss as to where to go with setting up per-directory keyword files.

I would appreciate any advice you could give me.

Thanks again,

Phil Carter

; ebibrc
; configuration file for ebib
; see Ebib manual for details
; created 2015-09-06, by Phil Carter

; change default entry type to book
; added 2015-09-06
(setq ebib-default-entry-type 'Book)

; set up keywords file
; select per-directory keywords list
; Is keywords file default ebib-keywords.txt?
; added 2015-09-08
(setq ebib-keywords-file "ebib-keywords.txt")