perrette/papers

Have a more local --local install

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Right now the papers install --local writes .papersconfig locally, but keep the same global defaults for filesdir and bibtex
While this may be OK and can be overwritten manually, the use case for --local is to have parallel, independent, medium-size projects. To me, this is one of the main uses of papers.

It would be good to adjust the defaults so that:

  • papers install --local defaults to local bibliography and filesdir
  • default to an existing bibliography if any is found

To make it more useful, it might also be good to have a recursive, upward search like git