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

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

Hi Joost,

I've got some more things to throw into the Ebib ring.

I have been trying out per-directory keywords. here is 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")

; 2015-10-05
; single keywords file
(setq ebib-keywords-file "ebib-keywords.txt")

I opened up a bib file with this configuration, then evaluated some of the expressions you have referred to. Here are the results:

ebib-keywords-file
"ebib-keywords.txt"

(file-name-directory ebib-keywords-file)
nil

ebib--keywords-files-alist
(("/Users/carters/fh-phil/Book/bib/" ("pm" "minmi" "queanbeyan" "nundle" "maitland" "newcastle" "afc" "ajc" "salvos" "smith" "writing" "temperance" ...) nil))

The keywords file is correct.

I am not sure whether the file-name-directory should be nil.

The ebib--keywords-files-alist returns the correct directory for my bib file, but it has returned a list of the keywords from this file. Based on the name of the variable I would have expected a list of one or more file names. Is this the correct interpretation of this variable?

Thanks yet again,

Phil Carter


On 03/10/2015, at 8:55 AM, Phil and Marlene Carter wrote:

> 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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