From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Collecting keywords in bibtex mode Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:12:05 +0100 Message-ID: <473B80C5.1010607@gmail.com> References: <87y7d0qvz5.fsf@kamaloka.dhatu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195081987 26770 80.91.229.12 (14 Nov 2007 23:13:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:13:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Sven Bretfeld , Carsten Dominik Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 15 00:13:11 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IsRPx-0000QI-Oq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:13:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IsRPl-0008Q9-3c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:12:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IsRPN-0008Fj-34 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:12:33 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IsRPM-0008DT-2S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:12:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IsRPL-0008D8-R9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:12:31 -0500 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IsRPL-0003CH-Gm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:12:31 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:63783 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1IsRPF-0003jO-4V; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:12:25 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070728 Thunderbird/2.0.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <87y7d0qvz5.fsf@kamaloka.dhatu> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 071113-1, 2007-11-13), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-ACL-Warn: Too high rate of unknown addresses received from you X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1IsRPF-0003jO-4V. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1IsRPF-0003jO-4V 5df848eb924a27d29062eb4558b2bcc3 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:49255 Archived-At: 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?