[Feature request] Setting the home/root directory manually
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I do really like using bibmanager for managing my BibTeX entries, but it kinda annoys me that it automatically uses ~/.bibmanager as the directory to store all information in.
As I use several different machines, I would like to use only one database across every single one of them.
Currently, I am forced to make a softlink between ~/.bibmanager and the actual address where the directory is stored, which is then synchronized on all of my computers.
It would be quite a bit easier if I could setup bibmanager manually to directly point to the actual address by using one of its command line commands, which would simply default to ~/.bibmanager if the user does not set it.
Yeah, I have the same issue. I'll put the database location into one of the config variables, that should allow users to put the database into a Dropbox-type of syncing folder.
Thanks.
Hi @1313e,
The database's home directory can be set by the user, so you can put it in a Dropbox folder and work across multiple machines. Take a look at tag v1.2.0rc2:
https://pypi.org/project/bibmanager/1.2.0rc2/
https://bibmanager.readthedocs.io/en/v1.2.0rc2/
Also PDF management is now enabled (including ADS fetching).
Edit: Updated code:
https://pypi.org/project/bibmanager/1.2.0rc4/
https://github.com/pcubillos/bibmanager/tree/v1.2.0rc4
Docs are still here: https://bibmanager.readthedocs.io/en/v1.2.0rc2/