All,
There have often been requests for a way to make it easier to add a key
to a citation, especially when using programs like JabRef. Benjamin
Piwowarski and I have been working on this, and we're basically there
except for a design decision.
Here's one idea. Currently,
citation-insert key
creates a new citation with the key. Instead, if the cursor is directly
in front of or behind an existing citation, then it could *add* that key
to that citation. The advantage of having it work this way is that this
works "out of the box" with JabRef, etc. The disadvantage is that you
can't, using JabRef, add a whole stream of different citations, one
after the next. But I don't really see why you'd want to do this,
anyway, and you can just hit "space" after each one and add them that
way. So it's easy to work around.
Alternatively, one could have a new LFUN and use
citation-add key
to add a key to a citation. The downside here is that this won't work
"out of the box", but we'd have to depend upon JabRef, etc, implementing
the new LFUN.
Thoughts?
Richard
