Re: [O] helm-bibtex questions

[John Kitchin]

Xebar Saram writes:

> Hi again Titus
>
> 2 quick questions that arose from using helm-bitex today extensively:
>
> how does one exclude in the search items? for example i want to search for
> xebar without keyword "progress" (I want to exclude in progress articles
> not published yet)

Try this in the helm search:

xebar !progress

>
> is it possible to define default enter command in helm-bibtex ?

>
> best
>
> Z
>
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Titus von der Malsburg <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 2015-06-18 Thu 04:32, Xebar Saram wrote:
>> > Hi Titus and thx so much for the answers!
>> >
>> > i will in the future use the github page to make requests.
>> >
>> > "The number of matches will be displayed in the mode line. "
>> >
>> > i see that now thx! :) the problem was(is) that its colored black on my
>> > black modline BG which makes it invisible ;-) i assume thats an helm
>> config
>> > i need to change
>> >
>> >
>> > "If you don’t want to type these search expressions, you could create a
>> > command that invokes helm-bibtex with a default search expression and
>> that
>> > command could be bound to a keyboard shortcut."
>> >
>> > that would be prefect for me and a solution to my issue. would you mind
>> > giving an example of such a code chunk. unfortunately i dont know elisp
>> though
>> > as john recommended i will do my best this summer when the semester ends
>> to
>> > try and pick it up :)
>>
>> Sure, here you go:
>>
>> #+BEGIN_SRC elisp
>> ;; Define helm-search with predefined search expression:
>> (defun helm-bibtex-my-publications ()
>>   "Search BibTeX entries authored by Xebar Saram."
>>   (interactive)
>>   (helm :sources '(helm-source-bibtex)
>>         :full-frame t
>>         :input "xebar saram"
>>         :candidate-number-limit 500))
>>
>> ;; Bind this search function to Ctrl-x p:
>> (global-set-key (kbd "C-x p") 'helm-bibtex-my-publications)
>> #+END_SRC
>>
>> > i will definitely use your tag system as you recommended, sounds perfect
>> > for me
>>
>> The tag system also comes in handy when generating publication lists for
>> CVs and web pages because BibTeX does not distinguish between conference
>> papers, posters, and talks.  If you have tags for that, it’s relatively
>> easy to create separate sections for these types of publications using
>> biblatex or bib2bib and bibtex2html in the case of web pages.
>>
>> > thanks again for your kind help and the amazing app ;-)
>>
>> You are welcome.
>>
>>   Titus
>>
>> >
>> > best
>> >
>> > Z
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 11:02 PM, Titus von der Malsburg <
>> address@hidden
>> >> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> On 2015-06-17 Wed 11:08, Xebar Saram wrote:
>> >> > Hi Titus
>> >> >
>> >> > I have been exploring helm-bibtex a bit today and have some questions.
>> >> btw
>> >> > is this the preferred way to make requests/ask questions or is
>> >> > github preferred?
>> >>
>> >> Helm-bibtex is not part of org (although it tries to work well with
>> >> org).  So I’m not sure whether this list is the best place for
>> >> discussing it.  For now the issue tracker on Github might be a better
>> >> option:
>> >>
>> >>   https://github.com/tmalsburg/helm-bibtex/issues
>> >>
>> >> > in any case i was wondering a few things:
>> >> >
>> >> > 1. is it possible to have custom sorting? i want all views to sort by
>> >> > Author, year, month
>> >>
>> >> I prefer to see the entries in the (inverse) order in which they appear
>> >> in the BibTeX file.  This way, recent additions show up at the
>> >> top.  However, I agree that sorting would be useful (see issues #5 and
>> >> #21); it just doesn’t have high priority for me.  Pull requests welcome.
>> >>
>> >> > 2. i would really like a way to have stored smart groups (like the
>> jabref
>> >> > dynamic groups if your aware of that). that is for example create a
>> group
>> >> > that auto selects all publications i have (by my first/last name) and
>> >> shows
>> >> > the count (in numbers) of these publications.
>> >>
>> >> I’m not familiar with smart groups but it seems that all helm-bibtex is
>> >> doing is giving you very flexible smart groups defined by your search
>> >> expressions.  For example, if you want a list of your publications, you
>> >> can simple enter your name.  And if you want a list of your articles,
>> >> you can enter your name + “article”.  If you want all your articles from
>> >> 2010, enter your name + “articles 2010”.  And so on.  The number of
>> >> matches will be displayed in the mode line.  If you don’t want to type
>> >> these search expressions, you could create a command that invokes
>> >> helm-bibtex with a default search expression and that command could be
>> >> bound to a keyboard shortcut.
>> >>
>> >> > Another example is a group to keep track of all the papers im working
>> on
>> >> or
>> >> > invloved with by matching keyword author and prep/*other key word
>> >>
>> >> I use two BibTeX fields to tag entries: “keywords” for keywords
>> >> describing the content of the paper (as usual) and “tags” for meta
>> >> data.  Values that I use in tags are “own”, “manuscript”, “poster”,
>> >> “talk”, … So if I want a list of all articles in progress, I search for
>> >> “own manuscript”.  Since the tags field is non-standard, it has to be
>> >> added to `helm-bibtex-additional-search-fields`.
>> >>
>> >> Another solution would be to use the pubstate field and to search for
>> >> your name and “forthcoming” (add pubstate to
>> >> helm-bibtex-additional-search-fields for this to work).
>> >>
>> >> > 3.is it possible to ass an option to auto generate a bibkey for a
>> >> selected
>> >> > citation based on user criteria such as author(date)short-title?
>> >>
>> >> Maintaining the content of the BibTeX file not really in the scope of
>> >> helm-bibtex (I prefer to write my BibTeX entries by hand).  Perhaps
>> >> org-ref or ebib can help here?  Once you have a function that generates
>> >> a new key and inserts it in the BibTeX file, you can easily add it to
>> >> the list of actions in helm-bibtex.
>> >>
>> >> Hope that helps.
>> >>
>> >>   Titus
>> >>
>> >> > thx so much in advance, you and john have given me confidence to
>> finally
>> >> > dive into the whole latex/bibteX world
>> >> >
>> >> > best
>> >> >
>> >> > Z
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>

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