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 :)

i will definitely use your tag system as you recommended, sounds perfect
for me

thanks again for your kind help and the amazing app ;-)

best

Z



On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 11:02 PM, Titus von der Malsburg <malsburg@posteo.de
> 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
>
>