Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram) (12/20/88)
I'm looking for GNU Emacs functions to search bibliography files for references, something similar to refer(1), for example. I would like to be able to invoke a function, type in one or more keywords, and have Emacs visit the .bib file containing a reference in which those keywords appear and position itself at that reference. A "next-occurrence" function would also be nice, as well as a function to specify a list of .bib files to use. I know, this looks a lot like the "tags" utility, except that tags tables for .bib files contain only the citation keyword, and I'd like to be able to search for keywords in all fields. For example, I might type in knuth cacm sorting to find articles on sorting written by Knuth for the CACM, i.e., paragraphs in .bib files in which the strings "knuth", "cacm" and "sorting" appear, whereas the "tags" entry for this reference would be something like "knuth78". Variations on this theme would be fine. Thanks. -- Ashwin. ARPA: Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu UUCP: {decvax,ucbvax,harvard,cmcl2,...}!yale!Ram-Ashwin BITNET: Ram@yalecs