On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 12:26 PM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> I've used JabRef for years but 5.x frustrates me to no end. They've lost > the > emacs keyboard chords that were present from 1.x through 4.x so to edit an > abstract, for example, I need to use the arrow and Del keys. And, they've > changed the UI so some data entry tabs have their widgets on the left half > of the application window and the entry preview on the right halt. But, > accessing the right-hand column of the data entry widgets must be done > blind > because that half window cannot be expanded to the right. Serious PITA. > Yes, > I've filed bug issues on both but nothing's been fixed. I've tried using > KDE's bibliography tool but that was equally frustrating. And Zotero > doesn't > use bibtex. > > Since I'm not a full-time researcher I don't need to share the bibiography > with collaborators and I will not store it somewhere in the cloud; my data, > my network. I also don't particularly care for a GUI; text-based works for > me since that's how I do most of my work (except when using LyX). > > I've about 1,200 books and PDFs in the bibtex database and other than > entering new documents I want to search primarily by keywords, secondarily > by authors. > > Does anyone know of a CLI bibliographic tool? Or a basic one with a GUI > that > Just Works(TM)? > I used JabRef and BibDesk (Mac OS) for years, and then KDE's KBibTeX, but lately I just open my .bib file in Vim. I found that KBibTeX screwed up the syntax of my file (which has something like 6000 references now, so it was painful to debug). In Vim, I see the syntax highlighting and it's easy to see and fix problems. Not super-helpful if you're looking for a GUI, but I just wanted to confirm that you are not alone in being frustrated with the available GUI options. Maria > > TIA, > > Rich > -- > lyx-users mailing list > lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users >
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