From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Igor Sosa Mayor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Find and replace in bibtex Author field Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 18:00:03 +0200 Message-ID: <87d2aeo1rw.fsf@pedroche.home> References: <9F40FD5F-5635-4DB4-B306-5D055D08E567@agrarianresearch.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412006422 25567 80.91.229.3 (29 Sep 2014 16:00:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 16:00:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 29 18:00:16 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XYdMR-0004zh-2b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:59:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37392 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYdMQ-0000qw-M3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2014 11:59:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41097) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYdMA-0000qd-0H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2014 11:59:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYdM4-0000yN-EQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2014 11:59:21 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:32842) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYdM4-0000xf-8C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2014 11:59:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XYdLu-0004h3-8W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:59:06 +0200 Original-Received: from 95.91.219.153 ([95.91.219.153]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:59:06 +0200 Original-Received: from joseleopoldo1792 by 95.91.219.153 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:59:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 95.91.219.153 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+7NR9uT8tvYcGw+e9O7lHveiM8k= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100177 Archived-At: Vikas Rawal 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. -- :: Igor Sosa Mayor :: joseleopoldo1792@gmail.com :: :: GnuPG: 0x1C1E2890 :: http://www.gnupg.org/ :: :: jabberid: rogorido :: ::