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From: "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
To: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>, mail@christianmoe.com
Subject: Re: [ANN] org-bibtex.el --- convert between Org headings and bibtex entries
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 07:34:24 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wriiwirf.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87wriiwjry.fsf@fastmail.fm

Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> writes:

> Hi Eric and Christian,
>
> Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com> writes:
>
>> The *conclusion* (where Eric Schulte's new bibtex functions should go)
>> is not a big concern to me, but FWIW, the *premise* strikes me as
>> unnecessarily restrictive.
>>
>> I submit that, for any non-Org format or application "foo", the module
>> org-foo.el does not have to be restricted to providing an Org link
>> type for foo. It seems a sensible namespace for e.g. foo-Org/Org-foo
>> conversion functions as well. The fact that several modules so named
>> *at present* only provide link functionality does not, I think, amount
>> to a convention that this is all they should do.
>
> Christian, you are right. I stand corrected. I agree that the namespace
> can accommodate import/export/conversion features in addition to
> hyperlinking.
>
> Apologies (especially to Eric) for my wavering on where to put this.
> This functionality is indeed not a generic bib backend, but rather
> tightly integrated with bibtex-mode and the bibtex format. So a full +1
> for adding this to org-bibtex.el. And that's my final answer... :)
>

No problem here, this is the sort of question I'm happy to defer on,
especially as it shouldn't really affect the final functionality.  Given
that I hadn't yet started to extract the code this is no skin off my
nose.  I'll go ahead and leave this code where it is.

Cheers -- Eric

-- 
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-25 13:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-19 23:52 [ANN] org-bibtex.el --- convert between Org headings and bibtex entries Eric Schulte
2011-04-20  1:01 ` Jeff Horn
2011-04-20  1:13   ` Eric Schulte
2011-04-20  7:54 ` Thomas S. Dye
2011-04-20 13:25   ` Matt Lundin
2011-04-20 14:29     ` Matt Lundin
2011-04-20 19:59     ` Eric Schulte
2011-04-20 19:00   ` Eric Schulte
2011-04-21 16:36     ` Thomas S. Dye
2011-04-21 21:06       ` Eric Schulte
2011-04-23 16:23         ` Thomas S. Dye
2011-04-23 22:59           ` Alan E. Davis
2011-04-24  0:40             ` Matt Lundin
2011-04-24 14:21               ` Eric Schulte
2011-04-24 16:53                 ` Christian Moe
2011-04-25 13:19                   ` Matt Lundin
2011-04-25 13:34                     ` Eric Schulte [this message]
2011-04-25 15:15                 ` Matt Lundin
2011-04-27 22:16                   ` Eric Schulte
2011-04-24  0:52             ` Eric Schulte
2011-04-24  4:49               ` Alan E. Davis
2011-04-24 14:29                 ` Eric Schulte
2011-04-24 20:40                   ` Alan E. Davis
2011-04-25 13:31                     ` Eric Schulte
2011-04-20  9:26 ` Christian Moe
2011-04-20 20:15   ` Eric Schulte
2011-04-20 12:10 ` Matt Lundin
2011-04-20 20:16   ` Eric Schulte
2011-04-22 14:05   ` [PATCH] " Eric Schulte
2011-04-22 15:45     ` Matt Lundin
2011-04-23  0:03       ` Matt Lundin
2011-04-23 14:07         ` Eric Schulte
2011-04-23 22:46           ` Matt Lundin

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