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joostkremers / ebib

A BibTeX database manager for Emacs.
https://joostkremers.github.io/ebib/
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Ebib 2.39.4 does not display my database anymore #284

Closed Knusper closed 6 months ago

Knusper commented 7 months ago

I just got a new machine, and I installed the latest ebib from melpa stable. I also ensured to install parsebib from melpa stable.

My configuration is the following:

(use-package ebib
  :ensure t
  :pin melpa-stable
  :config
  (setq ebib-index-columns
    (quote
     (("timestamp" 12 t)
      ("Entry Key" 20 t)
      ("Author/Editor" 40 nil)
      ("Year" 6 t)
      ("Title" 50 t))))
  (setq ebib-index-default-sort (quote ("timestamp" . descend)))
  (setq ebib-index-window-size 28)
  (setq ebib-preload-bib-files (quote ("~/science_works/bibliography.bib")))
  (setq ebib-timestamp-format "%Y.%m.%d")
  (setq ebib-use-timestamp t)
  (setq ebib-uniquify-keys t)
  )

When I open ebib only the first entry (correctly sorted by timestamp) is displayed in the list. Nothing is displayed in the entry buffer.

I get the following message: ebib--display-entry-key: Symbol’s function definition is void: pos-bol

For now I roll back to 2.35.1 (this I had on my laptop now for ages and it works fine). Thanks for all your work on ebib, it is very essential for my work.

joostkremers commented 7 months ago

Oh... That's a major SNAFU from my side... pos-bol is a new function in Emacs 29, and since I want to support older versions of Emacs, I should not have used it at all...

I'll push a fix for it as soon as possible.

joostkremers commented 7 months ago

I added a dependency on the compat library, which provides pos-bol for older Emacsen. Could you try it (version 2.39.5) and see if it works? Thanks!

Knusper commented 7 months ago

I'll give it a try tonight.

joostkremers commented 7 months ago

I've pushed a few more commits (not related to this issue), so the latest version is 2.40.

Knusper commented 7 months ago

I am a bit confused, because these new commits do neither appear in melpa or melpa stable. I will install it manually then, but maybe something is not working correctly?

joostkremers commented 7 months ago

Yes, I messed up the Package-Requires: header... Since that's a comment, compiling the file locally wasn't a problem, but Melpa extracts the contents and tries to parse it, which failed.

I pushed a commit to fix it. During the next build round Ebib should build again.

Knusper commented 6 months ago

Finally found time to test this. Ebib (ebib-2.40.3 from melpa-stable) now works flawlessly with emacs 27.1