Concept

The bibcmd is a command-line and simplified version of the bibus. It's developed to manage the bibliographies in pure command-line and keyboard. The basic entry manipulated in the bibcmd is a 'term', which include the information of bibtex, the pdf files and perhaps your note on it. The term is classified by the 'key', it could be tagged to multiple keys.

Dependency

• Both the binary library ncurses and sqlite3 are needed by this script. Install them from the repositories (with apt-get, yum or dnf ...)

• This script is writen in ruby, thus two gem are also necessary as the interfaces between the two library and ruby. Please do:

  gem install curses
  gem install sqlite3
  

• In addition, the gem http is also adopted to get the access to websites, you need to:

  gem install http
  

Configure

Please read the bibcmd and do as required.

File.expand_path('dir/.bibcmdrc') refer to the configure file, please read bibcmdrc.example for an example

In configure file

USER_NAME : the name of USER
DATA_FILE : the database
REF_DIR   : dirctory to story files ( pdfs, links)
READER    : primarily pdf reader
ASSREADER : secondary pdf reader

Command

main screen

command that would not change the data

c  change the reading mode
h  list the history
l  list the lists
L  list all terms
R  refresh the panel
s  open the search diaglog box

o  open the term with primarily pdf reader, e.g. evince
O  open the term with secondary pdf READER
D  draw the logic pictrue of the list
p  print the term
P  print all term

q  quit

command that would change the data

a  add a new term (The new term would be tagged with the key 'newtmp' by default)
A  add a new term with the inspire hep url (adsabs would be supported latter)
u  update the current term with new pdf file or bibtex File
U  update the current term with new bibtex found in inspire
t  tag or untag the current term to a key
d  delete the term
n  note the term

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list (key)

a  add a key as the son of current key
A  add a key as the son of the origin key
d  delete the key
m  modify the key name
l  link the key to another (or said, change the father of the key)

zo unfold all the keys
zm fold all the keys
za change the current key folding state

L  list the terms in the key and its offsprings
[Enter] select the key (and list the terms of it)
q quit the list

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adding note

a  add a note
d  delete the note
m  modify the note
p  pickup a note (to adjust its position)
s  save notes
q  quit the note mode