Re: [Ebib-users] Feature request

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

Hi Wei-Wei Guo,

(Not sure what your first name is, so I'm playing it safe. ;-)

> I just finished my dissertation with Ebib. It helped a lot.

Thanks, that's great to hear! :-)

> the ebib-insert-bibtex-key function can show all possible entries with
> a TAB. During writing my dissertation,  I keeped on finding that I
> wish ebib-insert-bibtex-key could show not only the entry name, but
> also the author (at least the first author) and the title. I cannot
> remember all those references only by their entry names, since there
> are more than 300 references. I think it would be enough if
> ebib-insert-bibtex-key can show every entry in one line with entry
> name, author(s), and title. And it would be fancy if it can be
> customized.

Yes, I know exactly what you mean... I have run into the same problem.
I've never thought about a possible solution, however. I use Emacs'
completion functions, and this is what they give you.

I'll start looking into it, though. It seems Emacs 22 has some new
completion capabilities which may prove interesting.


-- 
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments