Re: [Ebib-users] Configuration of Ebib with ebibrc

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

Hi Phil,

> 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.

If you have the same version of Emacs (and of any packages you have
installed) on all machines, you can also synchronise your Custom
settings. (Unless, of course, you want/need different settings for each
machine...)

> 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.

Yes, that should do the trick. If there is no directory part in the file
name in `ebib-keywords-file`, Ebib should create a separate keywords
file in each directory.

Note, however, that Ebib only creates such a file if new keywords are
added in the current session. Keywords that are already in the .bib file
are not automatically saved to the keywords file. Perhaps that is
causing your problem?

Ebib should display keywords that are not in the database's keywords
file in red (or whatever you've customised the `error` face to). If you
see such keywords, you can add them to the file by pressing `K s`. They
should then change to your normal foreground color and when you close
the database, they'll be saved. The file should automatically be created
if it doesn't exist yet.

If things don't work this way for you, please let me know and I'll try
and figure out what goes wrong.

> ; 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)

Does this work? The value of `ebib-default-entry-type` should be a
string, so:

(setq ebib-default-entry-type "Book")

should be safer. (That is, setting `ebib-default-entry-type` to a symbol
is not guaranteed to continue to work when I update Ebib.)

Best,

Joost




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