Re: [Ebib-users] feature request: timestamping creation dates automatically

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

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:55:18PM -0800, Jesse Alama wrote:
> To keep track of the growth of a bibliography with ebib, it would be
> nice if, when creating a new entry, a field is created whose content
> is the time when the field is created.  It could be called
> "creation-date" or something like that (this is what BBDB does).  The
> field could be hidden by default (as it is with BBDB).

mmm, getting the time and storing it is easy. ebib has no way to make a
field "hidden", however, so that would require a bit on engineering.

i'll dive into it after next week, when i'll have time again. (next week is
set to be quite busy for me...)

best,

joost


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