From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Kremers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Find and replace in bibtex Author field Date: 1 Oct 2014 22:54:39 GMT Message-ID: References: <9F40FD5F-5635-4DB4-B306-5D055D08E567@agrarianresearch.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412204124 3013 80.91.229.3 (1 Oct 2014 22:55:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 22:55:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 02 00:55:19 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 1XZSnl-0006Jc-LZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2014 00:55:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59136 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZSnl-0006GN-CO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Oct 2014 18:55:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Trace: individual.net CIFT2W1J8zfZsF/cNAKkGAINJa1f0B8NGNJYysGQCRqvMG5Y8F Cancel-Lock: sha1:DWsM2jyGqtaac7QyWm+lvVFhBQw= Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Editor: Emacs of course! User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-18 (Linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:207944 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:100219 Archived-At: Igor Sosa Mayor wrote: > 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? >> >> 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... -- Joost Kremers joostkremers@fastmail.fm Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht EN:SiS(9)