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

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

Hi Phil,

Now all the values appear as they should be. The expression
`(file-name-directory ebib-keywords-file)` should return nil in this
case, because the value of the variable `ebib-keywords-file` doesn't
have a directory part. Also, the value of ebib--keywords-files-alist has
the right value: it should contain a list of lists. Each sublist has
three elements: the first one is the path to the keywords file, the
second one a list of keywords from that file and the third one a list of
keywords added during the current session (which will be nil when you
just started Ebib).

So everything should be working now as advertised... I hope it does, but
if not, let me know and I'll see what I can do.

Best,

Joost





On Mo, Okt 05 2015, Phil and Marlene Carter <pan...@bi...> wrote:
> 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
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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