orgmode and ebib

orgmode and ebib

[Ali Tofigh]

hi,

i use ebib to manage my bibtex references. it would be really cool if
orgmode could follow links to bibtex entries using ebib. what i would
like is to be able to follow a link such as [[bib:bibentry]] and end
up in ebib, with my standard bibtex database opened, and entry
positioned at the bibentry. can this be achieved without adding
functionality to orgmode?

/ali

Re: orgmode and ebib

[Carsten Dominik]

On May 28, 2010, at 10:39 PM, Ali Tofigh wrote:

> hi,
>
> i use ebib to manage my bibtex references. it would be really cool if
> orgmode could follow links to bibtex entries using ebib. what i would
> like is to be able to follow a link such as [[bib:bibentry]] and end
> up in ebib, with my standard bibtex database opened, and entry
> positioned at the bibentry. can this be achieved without adding
> functionality to orgmode?

Very likely, this is very simple to implement - but I don't know ebib  
and what API it offers to find and display entries.  If someone is  
interested to hack this, look at org-bibtex.e and at the manual:

http://orgmode.org/manual/Adding-hyperlink-types.html#Adding-hyperlink-types


The basic code for this will be very simple indeed, like

(org-add-link-type "ebib" 'org-ebib-open)
(defun org-bib-open (path)
      ;; PATH will be the bibentry key here
      (some-ebib-function-to-find-and-display path))	

HTH

- Carsten