From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian van den Broek Subject: org-bibtex.el feature request Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 17:19:54 +0200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56390) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SPEsY-0006CY-Et for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 01 May 2012 11:20:39 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SPEsW-0005dC-Hp for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 01 May 2012 11:20:38 -0400 Received: from mail-gy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.160.169]:42277) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SPEsW-0005d2-Az for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 01 May 2012 11:20:36 -0400 Received: by ghrr18 with SMTP id r18so2312826ghr.0 for ; Tue, 01 May 2012 08:20:34 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode Hi all, I'm using org-bibtex.el and capture templates to store links from BibTeX entries and am finding it very useful functionality. The documentation in org-bibtex.el says "And it constructs a nice description tag for the link that contains the author name, the year and a short title." This works as advertised, but it would really be a help were there to be an option to use the BibTeX citation key as the link description. I'd like to request that this be considered as a feature to add. The motivation is that I am using the following in my org-capture-templates: ("b" "BibTeX Entry") ("ba" "Bibtex Article" entry (file+headline "Reading.org" "To File" "%:author") "* %:title %^G :PROPERTIES: :entered: %U :END: %a %:key %:author %:title %:year %:journal %? " :empty-lines 2) The use of various :keywords gives me the full information about the author and year (while I can see that the short form might be of use, I do want the complete information) and thus the short form is redundant. The BibTeX key seems to me to be the natural description link. (Unlike the short form that is generated, it is sure to be unique in a well maintained BibTeX file.) Were it used, the resulting capture text would seem cleaner. While I would indeed like this, I recognize it is a small thing and there may be a desire to contain the growth of the variables that org-mode relies on. Thanks for considering it, in any case. Best, Brian vdB