Ebib News

Version 2.49, January 2025

• Add new user option ebib-url-fields to customise the fields that (may) contain URLs, so that they can be made clickable and can be selected with ebib-browse-url.

Version 2.48, December 2024

• Add option to hide all fields that have no value.

Version 2.47, November 2024

• Use completion when selecting a file or URL to view instead of asking for a number.

Version 2.46, November 2024

• Update for parsebib.el version 6.0.

Version 2.45, October 2024

• Handle TeX markup better when creating a note.

Version 2.44, September 2024

• New user option ebib-doi-resolver.
• Breaking change: Remove any DOI resolver in the doi field, if present, before sending a DOI to the browser.

Version 2.43, July 2024

• Use standard Emacs register functionality for storing entries in registers and jumping back to them.
• Support for setting Ebib customisation options in directory-local variables.

Version 2.42, June 2024

• Keep navigation history and commands to navigate it.
• Store entries in registers, in order to be able to navigate back to them.

Version 2.41, April 2024

• New user option ebib-import-target-directory: specify the target directory for importing files / URLs.
• Renamed user option ebib-import-directory to ebib-import-source-directory.

Version 2.40, November 2023

• New user option ebib-save-indent-as-bibtex: use spaces for indenting fields, and use the same indentation that bibtex-mode would use.
• Various bug fixes.

Version 2.39, September 2022

• New user option ebib-field-edit-functions allows one to customise the way fields are edited.
• Use standard Emacs completion functions in field editing functions. This especially changes the way multiple completion is handled in fields such as author, editor, file, etc.

Version 2.38, June 2022

• Allow Elisp functions as handlers of external files.

Version 2.37, June 2022

• Move ebib-TeX-markup-replace-alist and related functions to parsebib.el. This makes customising the specific behaviour a bit more difficult, because the new variable parsebib-TeX-markup-replace-alist is not a user option, but moving this functionality to parsebib makes it available to other packages using that library. If you haven’t customised ebib-TeX-markup-replace-alist, you shouldn’t notice any difference.

Version 2.36, June 2022

• Support for including field values from cross-referenced entries when applying filters. Entries to which a filter applies only by virtue of field values inherited from another entry can now be included in the filter results.

Version 2.35, April 2022

• Add support for “recursive” @String definitions (i.e., @String definitions in which the expansion itself contains an @String abbreviation).
• Show expansion of recursive @String definitions in the Strings buffer.
• Better handling of narrow columns in the index buffer.
• Improved support for cleaning up TeX code when displaying titles in the index buffer.

Version 2.34, December 2021

• Display expansions of @String abbreviations in the entry buffer, thanks to Hugo Heagren.
• Display hidden and undefined fields that inherit a value from a cross-referenced entry.

Version 2.33, November 2021

• New command: ebib-jump-to-field, bound to j in the entry buffer.
• Add ivy actions to ebib-jump-to-field, thanks to Hugo Heagren.

Version 2.32, April 2021

• Add support for biblio.el.

Version 2.31, March 2021

• Allow the use of org-capture to create notes.

Version 2.30, February 2021

• Redesign handling of external notes. It is now possible to have multiple files with multiple notes in them. This may mean you need to redo your configuration, see Upgrading from earlier Ebib versions for details.

Version 2.29, December 2020

• Add support for selectrum.

Version 2.28, October 2020

• Redesign keyword handling.
• New timestamp format. This new format is more in line with ISO 8601 and is sortable alphanumerically.

Version 2.27, October 2020

• Add customisation options ebib-multiline-fields and ebib-fields-with-completion.
• Remove customisation option ebib-edit-author/editor-without-completion (use ebib-fields-with-completion instead).
• Remove customisation options ebib-file-field, ebib-url-field and ebib-doi-field. There is no point in customising these fields, because biblatex expects these fields to contain their intended values.

Version 2.26, September 2020

• Copy key, entry, reference or citation to the kill ring (and system clipboard), for easy pasting to other buffers or applications.

Version 2.25, June 2020

• Allow adding the .bib file to Org mode links. The option org-ebib-link-type determines which kinds of Org links are created when doing org-add-link in an Ebib index buffer.

Version 2.24, June 2020

• Rename master/slave databases to main/dependent databases.

Version 2.23, May 2020

• Allow specifying .bib files with a file-local variable (esp. for non-LaTeX files).

Version 2.22, February 2020

• Improve prompting when inserting citations.
• Allow selecting multiple entries when inserting a citation in a text buffer.
• Automatically save a dependent database when an entry is added that is being inserted into a text buffer.

Version 2.21, December 2019

• New option ebib-default-dir: control the directory that Ebib uses as its default directory.

Version 2.20, December 2019

• Display the contents of an external note when the current entry has one. This behaviour can be customized with the option ebib-notes-show-note-method.
• Rename ebib-notes-use-single-file to ebib-notes-file.

Version 2.19, November 2019

• Add command ebib-jump-to-entry (bound to j in the index buffer): quickly jump to any entry in any database using completion.
• Allow a full URL in the doi field: when passing the DOI to a browser, "https://dx.doi.org/" is only added if the contents of the doi field does not start with "http://" "https://".

Version 2.17, June 2019

• Create dependent databases, i.e., databases that share their data with a main database but which are saved as separate .bib files.
• Use completion when editing certain fields, to make it easier to enter e.g., author or editor names consistently.

Version 2.16, February 2019

• Add command ebib-download-url: download pdf from a site in the url field.
• Add command ebib-import-file: import local file into current database.
• Update the menus.
• Change display of the file field in the entry buffer and make file names clickable.
• Bug fix: Do not look for alias fields in BibTeX databases. (Alias fields are only defined for biblatex).
• Bug fix: ebib-yank-field-contents can now be repeated.

Version 2.15, January 2019

• Multiline field values can now be displayed in the entry buffer.
• Do not warn about aliased entry types when loading biblatex files.
• The abstract field is now treated as a multiline field by default, similar to the annote/annotation field.
• Bug fix: ebib-show-annotation (bound to A) shows the contents of the annote field in BibTeX databases, not the annotation field (which is biblatex-specific).

Version 2.14, December 2018

• Change the user interface of the export functions. Calling one of the export functions now exports to another database. The user is asked to specify the database, enabling completion on the database names. To export to a file, the export functions have to be called with a prefix argument.
• Bug fix: Handle overwriting the local BibTeX dialect correctly.
• Bug fix: Add braces to the crossref field.

Version 2.13, November 2018

• Use a separate index buffer for each open .bib file. Filling the index buffer can be slow for large .bib files, because of the need to calculate the tabulated columns.

Version 2.12.3, November 2018

• Bug fix: when searching the database, only search visible entries.

Version 2.12.2, November 2018

• Bug fix: when editing the crossref field, offer keys from all databases as completion targets, not just the current one.

Version 2.12, August 2018

• Add an option to specify the default sort field and direction. It is no longer necessary to set the desired sort field as the first column in the index buffer, but Ebib still defaults to this if the default sort field and direction are not set explicitly.

Version 2.11.12, July 2018

• Use biblatex’s Date field, if present, for displaying the year.
• Check for changed files on disk when saving all databases, not just when saving the current database.
• Improve handling of multiple databases: crossref entries can now occur in other open databases as well, and searches with / can be continued in other databases.
• Autogenerating keys is now on by default.

Version 2.11, January 2017

• Update for parsebib v. 2.3.

Version 2.10, January 2017

• Improved index column display.

Version 2.9, January 2017

• Allow %s in the program strings in ebib-file-associations, making it possible to pass command line arguments to the program being called.

19 December 2016

• Remove support for a separate rc file for Ebib. User configuration should be moved to Emacs’ init.el file. To keep Ebib customisation in a separate file, simply load it from init.el.
• The macro ebib-key has also been removed. Simply use define-key or any other key binding mechanism to define keys for Ebib. See the section Modifying Key Bindings for details.

7 December 2016

• Upgrade Emacs dependency to 24.4.

5 December 2016

• New library org-ebib. This defines a new Org link type ebib:, which uses the command org-ebib-open to open Ebib. The previous commands to do this, ebib-show-entry and ebib-open-org-link have been removed. org-ebib also allows the creation of Org links to Ebib entries with org-store-link.
• New citation insertion command ebib-insert-citation. This replaces ebib-insert-bibtex-key, so please update your key bindings. The new command uses ivy for completion if this package is available, so that it is possible to select an entry by typing parts of its author and/or title.

7 November 2016

• New tabulated list interface in index buffer. This interface is not based on Emacs’ built-in tabulated-list-mode, hence sorting cannot be done by clicking on the column headers. Sorting can be done with <, > (sort ascending and sort descending, respectively, which ask for the column to sort) and =, to reset to default sort (which is on the entry key).
• The user option ebib-index-display-fields is replaced with ebib-index-columns, which has a different format: each element in ebib-index-columns describes a column in the tabulated view and consists of a list containing the field name, the column’s width and a boolean indicating whether sorting on this column is possible.

Version 2.8, 26 October 2016

• Changed key bindings: j and k no longer move up/down in the index, entry and strings buffers; use p and n instead. Furthermore, i now executes ebib-push-bibtex-key (used to be p), and I (capital i) executes ebib-browse-doi (used to be i).
• In the index buffer, ebib-search-next (which used to be bound to n) is no longer bound. Instead, ebib-search (still bound to /) activates a transient map which binds the keys / and RET to ebib-search-next. Any other key disables the transient keymap and is executed normally.
• In the index buffer, C-u / repeats the previous search. (This fixes a small bug that has so far gone unnoticed: moving to the top of the databas and calling ebib-search-next, as previously suggested in the manual to get around the fact that ebib-search-next does not wrap, would not search the first entry.)
• In the entry buffer, x is replaced by k (ebib-kill-field-contents).
• New functions: ebib-kill-entry and ebib-yank-entry for killing and yanking BibTeX entries. ebib-kill-entry deletes the current entry from the database and puts it in the kill ring. ebib-yank-entry adds an entry from the kill ring to the current database.

Version 2.7, 22 September 2016

• Reading list management: add and remove BibTeX entries to an Org reading list.
• Remove options ebib-notes-identifier-function and ebib-notes-title-function.
• Add option ebib-notes-template-specifiers: allow customisation of the format specs used in ebib-notes-template. (This option replaces ebib-notes-identifier-function and ebib-notes-title-function).

Version 2.6.3, 31 August 2016

• Allow storing notes in a single file rather than using one file per note.
• Correct handling of DOIs.
• Add option ebib-truncate-file-names: if set (the default), file names added to the file field are truncated relative to ebib-file-search-dirs.
• Add option ebib-file-name-mod-function: modify file paths before storing them in the file field.