Re: Collecting keywords in bibtex mode

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Sven Bretfeld wrote:
> Hi to all
> 
> I'm sadly missing a feature in bibtex mode. It should be possible to
> collect a list of all values in all keywords = {value} lines of a
> bibtex buffer. Alternatively a list of all possible values for this
> field should be definable by the user (maybe in some commented region
> on top or bottom of the file like the Local Variables).
> 
> The point is, that the keywords-fields of a bibtex database should
> have a consistent terminology. When, for example, I want to view all
> my collected entries on the topic "warfare" there are possibly some
> books that are not matched because I accidentally gave them the
> keyword "war" instead of "warfare". This could be better controlled at
> the time of inserting a new entry with a kind of
> "bibtex-show-and-select-keywords" function.
> 
> Other bibliography software (like Endnote and JabRef) are aware of
> keywords. In Emacs I haven't found such a feature. Have I overlooked
> it? Or did I (like so often) just not understand the power of a
> certain function?
> 
> Greetings
> 
> Sven


It sounds like a good idea and something that would be equally useful in 
org-mode.

BTW, has anyone used org-mode for keeping article references etc? Some 
suggestions about how to do it?