I am a new JabRef user - this program is very good indeed! Congrats to the developers.
I have a question which I guess has been asked many times before, but still...
--> How can I display/export "a list" of all the keywords that currently used in my database?
Thanks in advance for the answer
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On Windoze you can select all the >Manage keyword> and then enable "Display keywords appearing in ANY entry". You can then Ctrl-C to copy and Ctrl-V to paste it into a text file. The same approach should work for Linux.
Not the most obvious, and it would be useful for JabRef to provide this list as an autocomplete or dropdown selection to avoid typos or entering slightly different keywords when manually adding them to new entries.
Never the less JabRef is excellent software, especially given the price;-)
Responding to @Oliver 2015-06-13 below, yes that partially does it, except when the key words are similar. Then it only shows which ever it decides is the first. The LyX (WYSIWYM LaTeX frontend) input completion offers options selectable by Tabbing and/or a dropdown menu. Tabbing could be replaced by the down arrow. Perhaps the open source code from that could be spliced in.
Last edit: Alan Belle 2016-02-28
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to provide this list as an autocomplete or dropdown selection
Go to Options/Preferences/Entry editor.
Enable [x] Enable word/name autocompletion
Ensure that the field "keywords" is in the field "Use autocompletion for the following fields"
Does that help?
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Hello All,
I am a new JabRef user - this program is very good indeed! Congrats to the developers.
I have a question which I guess has been asked many times before, but still...
--> How can I display/export "a list" of all the keywords that currently used in my database?
Thanks in advance for the answer
On Windoze you can select all the >Manage keyword> and then enable "Display keywords appearing in ANY entry". You can then Ctrl-C to copy and Ctrl-V to paste it into a text file. The same approach should work for Linux.
Not the most obvious, and it would be useful for JabRef to provide this list as an autocomplete or dropdown selection to avoid typos or entering slightly different keywords when manually adding them to new entries.
Never the less JabRef is excellent software, especially given the price;-)
Responding to @Oliver 2015-06-13 below, yes that partially does it, except when the key words are similar. Then it only shows which ever it decides is the first. The LyX (WYSIWYM LaTeX frontend) input completion offers options selectable by Tabbing and/or a dropdown menu. Tabbing could be replaced by the down arrow. Perhaps the open source code from that could be spliced in.
Last edit: Alan Belle 2016-02-28
Go to Options/Preferences/Entry editor.
Enable [x] Enable word/name autocompletion
Ensure that the field "keywords" is in the field "Use autocompletion for the following fields"
Does that help?