From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Long file names in Dired
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 11:01:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878udhvr0r.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sibq9v12.fsf@debian.uxu>
On 2015-04-24, at 03:26, Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote:
> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>
>> BTW, the reason I have long filenames is that I have
>> a bunch of pdfs with scientific articles, and
>> I decided that putting the author names, publication
>> year and a ttile (at least shortened) into the
>> filename might be a good idea so that I don't get
>> lost. An alternative would be e.g. an Org-mode based
>> database with links to files, but then relocating
>> them would be non-trivial.
>
> This idea is even better - use BibTeX. In a .bib file,
I. HATE. BIBTEX. WITH. A. PASSION.
(And I have reasons - basically, BibTeX is a pile of crap. I agree that
it /is/ less unusable for writing in English exclusively, but again - it
creates /a lot/ more problems than it solves.)
That said, I like that idea, though I would use BibLaTeX (which is
a modern replacement for BibTeX, curing many - even though not all - of
its problems (the main one which it doesn't help is the format for
multiple authors), or amsrefs, which is less powerful than Bib(La)TeX,
but has a much saner format for multiple names (and is /way/ easier to
configure than Bib(La)TeX).
> write entries like this - every book, article, paper,
> etc. you read, you make an entry:
>
> @book{cpp,
> author = {Bjarne Stroustrup},
> title = {The C++ Programming Language},
> edition = {Second Edition},
> publisher = {Addison-Wesley},
> year = 1992,
> ISBN = {0-201-53992-6}
> }
>
> In LaTeX, a reference is made with \cite, e.g.:
>
> C++ is an extension of C, which is the system
> programming language of choice since the early-mid
> 70s. \cite[pp. v-vi, 6, 41-42]{cpp}
>
> Then rename the file: cpp.pdf
>
> If you use Emacs to view PDFs as well, for the .bib
> file (the BibTeX mode), write a defun that takes the
> entry-around-point's name ('cpp' in this case) and
> combines it with the path where you have the PDF (all
> of them), and suddenly you are only the extention away
> from having an as-is text-editable menu to browse all
> that stuff as well.
>
> Don't thank me. I'll send an invoice :)
Haha. But thanks, I like this idea. (Though using Org-mode properties
might be even better than using Bib(La)TeX or amsrefs etc.)
Thanks a lot!
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
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2015-04-24 1:26 ` Long file names in Dired Emanuel Berg
2015-04-24 9:01 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2015-04-24 9:12 ` Rasmus
2015-04-24 9:37 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-04-24 10:19 ` Rasmus
2015-04-24 21:02 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-04-24 21:10 ` Marcin Borkowski
[not found] ` <mailman.1511.1429866115.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-25 1:29 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-25 8:18 ` Marcin Borkowski
[not found] ` <mailman.1581.1429950075.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-25 11:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-03 22:59 ` Marcin Borkowski
[not found] ` <mailman.2273.1430694000.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-05-04 0:22 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-05-04 0:41 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-23 23:10 Marcin Borkowski
2015-04-24 0:38 ` Bob Proulx
2015-04-24 6:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
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