Emacs DBLP Mode for better Papers in LaTeX

grundprinzip — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:50:32 +0000

Do you remember the last time you were writing a paper and you knew that you reached the perfect point for a citation. You knew the author or the paper but you did not want to lookup the BibTeX entry or even create it? So you started to use rDBLP, but now you have to lookup the citation key every time again and again. Since your BibTeX file is now build after the paper was compiled the first time, there is no chance to use common BibTeX management tools.

As a consequence from this problem I wrote a small minor mode for Emacs that allows to search the DBLP database directly from Emacs and insert the correct citation key.

To install this minor mode follow these steps:

Go to your local site lisp directory – e.g. ~/.emacs.d/elisp
git clone git@github.com:grundprinzip/dblp.el.git
and now add the following lines to your Emacs configuration to activate the minor mode as soon as you enter LaTeX mode

;; DBLP mode
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/elisp/dblp.el")
(require 'dblp)
(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'dblp-mode)

If you want to use the querying hit “C-M-c” if the DBLP mode is activated and this will start an interactive mode to query DBLP.

Currently the minor mode requires Ruby to be available on the platform. I plan to port the parser and querying to Lisp but currently it’s easier for me to write it in Ruby. Do you have any comments or questions, please leave me a message in the comments.

-Martin

Emacs Movement Shortcuts Wallpaper

grundprinzip — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 20:27:22 +0000

Stumbling across the Vim Movements Shortcuts Wallpaper, I decided to make one for Emacs. Basically I really like the idea of having a real quick reference to the most important shortcuts on your desktop.

If you have any additional shortcuts that you would love to have, please leave a comment. If you want to modify the wallpaper, I uploaded the original PDF version of the wallpaper that you can easily modify with any tool of your choice.

-Martin

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