On Sep 20, 2016, at 16:45 , Tom Frei wrote: > I'm new to bibdesk and this mailing list. I like bibdesk so far, but I see it > doesn't like when I try to edit a generated bibtex file by hand with vim. If > I edit the file with vim and then later open it with bibdesk and make a > subsequent edit with bibdesk, it doesn't like it and overwrites the file and > omits my manual edit. This is probably a feature that I don't recognize. > What's the workaround? What I'm trying to do is add the shortauthor field to > a bibtex entry. Thanks in advance!
A little more detail would help (unless Christian's answer gave you what you need). What specific steps are involved? Do you close the BibTeX .bib file when editing by hand? FWIW, I frequently edit the .bib file by hand, and have no problems (except for those rare instances when I fubar the .bib file...). Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon at Large Institute for the Absorption of Federal Funds -- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
