Find and replace in bibtex Author field

Find and replace in bibtex Author field

[Vikas Rawal]

I do not know if this is the right forum to ask this. I use bibtex.el/auctex/reftex for managing my bibtex database in emacs. 

Is there a way to sort the database records by a particular field, and to be able to search and replace a string in a particular field of a bibtex database using emacs?

Would appreciate any pointers.

Vikas

Re: Find and replace in bibtex Author field

[Igor Sosa Mayor]

Vikas Rawal <vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org> writes:

> I do not know if this is the right forum to ask this. I use bibtex.el/auctex/reftex for managing my bibtex database in emacs. 
>
> Is there a way to sort the database records by a particular field, and to be able to search and replace a string in a particular field of a bibtex database using emacs?

as far as I know, no. Maybe the replace function could be achieved with
a regexp replace search...

Nevertheless with a small perl script youd could get it (I think) in an
relatively easy way.

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Re: Find and replace in bibtex Author field

[Igor Sosa Mayor]

Vikas Rawal <vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org> writes:

> I do not know if this is the right forum to ask this. I use bibtex.el/auctex/reftex for managing my bibtex database in emacs. 
>
> Is there a way to sort the database records by a particular field, and to be able to search and replace a string in a particular field of a bibtex database using emacs?
>
> Would appreciate any pointers.

take also a look at:
http://joostkremers.github.io/ebib/


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Re: Find and replace in bibtex Author field

[Joost Kremers]

Igor Sosa Mayor wrote:
> Vikas Rawal <vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org> writes:
>
>> I do not know if this is the right forum to ask this. I use bibtex.el/auctex/reftex for managing my bibtex database in emacs. 
>>
>> Is there a way to sort the database records by a particular field, and to be able to search and replace a string in a particular field of a bibtex database using emacs?
>>
>> Would appreciate any pointers.
>
> take also a look at:
> http://joostkremers.github.io/ebib/

At least sorting should be possible with Ebib:

http://joostkremers.github.io/ebib/ebib-manual.html#sorting-the-.bib-file

Searching for a string in a particular field is also possible:

http://joostkremers.github.io/ebib/ebib-manual.html#filters

But replacing that string is a different matter. Perhaps in the next version...


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