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cpitclaudel / biblio.el

Browse and import bibliographic references from CrossRef, DBLP, HAL, arXiv, Dissemin, and doi.org from Emacs
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Port to something but elisp/emacs #18

Closed danr closed 5 years ago

danr commented 6 years ago

It would be nice to be able to be able to use the functionality from this package without emacs as a dependency.

(related: Are there other known tools like this?)

cpitclaudel commented 6 years ago

That might be nice, but I think the chance of this happening is pretty low :/ Unless someones steps in? This package relies pretty heavily on Emacs/Elisp facilities.

(Not sure; the closest might be Google Scholar's search UI)

danr commented 6 years ago

Would it be possible to have some core of this library that is both valid elisp and some stand-alone lisp implementation? That would open the possibility to make a command line tool that takes a query and returns the result on stdout (perhaps simply as an sexpr).

cpitclaudel commented 6 years ago

Possibly, though the API that the code uses currently are pretty emacs-specific. Writing a compatibility layer would clutter the code a lot.

Making a CLI in ELisp for the current code would be fairly easy, though. For that use case, why does the language matter?

danr commented 6 years ago

A CLI via emacs/elisp sounds very useful. And true, for that use case it does not matter what the internal language is. :+1:

cpitclaudel commented 6 years ago

That makes sense / sounds feasible, but I don't expect I'll have a lots of time to put into this soon. Feel free to give it a try :) I'm happy to provide guidance if needed.

danr commented 6 years ago

Np, I don't think I can either. Let's just keep this discussion as an open issue in case someone considers the same idea.

cpitclaudel commented 5 years ago

I'll close this since I'm not going to work on it soon, but I'll leave the discussion open for people to chime in.