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

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

Hi Joost,

What I did first up was to copy (file-name-directory ebib-keywords-file) into the scratch buffer, mark it, then M-x eval-region.

But using C-j here is what I get:

ebib-keywords-file
"/Users/carters/.emacs.d/ebib-keywords.txt"

(file-name-directory ebib-keywords-file)
"/Users/carters/.emacs.d/"

which all seems to be correct.

I wondered whether there was something in my init.el that was throwing ebib off, so I created a temporary init.el with nothing in it except lines related to ebib. No change.
  
I am getting to the point here where I am feeling guilty for wasting your time. The thing that attracted me to Ebib was the keywords facility, if I can't it to work I may have to try another method.

Phil


On 02/10/2015, at 7:01 PM, Joost Kremers wrote:

> Hi Phil,
> 
>> What do you mean by what does 
>> 
>>> (file-name-directory ebib-keywords-file)
>> 
>> say? I tried evaluating this expression, but I didn't get any result.
> 
> How did you evaluate it? You should have Ebib running, then go to the
> *scratch* buffer, type (or copy&paste) the expression and press C-j.
> 
> Better yet, before you do that, type `ebib-keywords-file` in the
> *scratch* buffer and press C-j.
> 
> This is the output I get when I do that:
> 
> ebib-keywords-file
> "~/Copy/Work/Bibtex/ebib.keywords"
> (file-name-directory ebib-keywords-file)
> "~/Copy/Work/Bibtex/"
> 
> Yours should be similar.
> 
> The thing is, given that `ebib-keywords-file` seems to be set, the only
> way `ebib--keywords-files-alist` could be nil is if the function
> `file-name-directory` for some reason doesn't produce the correct
> output. 
> 
>> I get the wrong type argument after pressing 'K s'.
> 
> Yes, that makes sense. Ebib tries to push the keywords in the keywords
> field of the current entry onto `ebib--keywords-files-alist`, but since
> that variable is nil, it cannot do that.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Joost
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Joost Kremers
> Life has its moments
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