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

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

Hi Joost,

Sorry to keep emailing with problems.

I'm sorry to say that I am still having trouble with ebibrc and the keywords file.

If I open a bib file with no keywords, and attempt to add a key word, the keyword appears in red. If I type K, trying to save the keyword, I get a message in the mini-buffer that K is undefined. I don't get to type s.

I wondered whether setting ebib-keywords-use-only-file to a non-nil value might fix the problem, but it didn't.

I tried creating the file ebib-keywords.txt, with 1 or 2 entries, outside of Ebib, no luck with that either.

Somehow, the file ebib-keywords.txt is not being recognised.

Thanks for the tip about "Book", that has fixed that problem.

Here is the latest version of my ebibrc file:

; 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")

; use only keywords file
; added 2015-09-10
(setq ebib-keywords-use-only-file t)

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

Thanks again,

Phil 
 

  
On 09/09/2015, at 9:15 PM, Joost Kremers wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Joost Kremers
> Life has its moments
> 
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