Re: Fwd: Org-cite: Replace basic follow-processor with transient menu?

[Ihor Radchenko]

Tor-björn Claesson <tclaesson@gmail.com> writes:

>> 1. Ideally, we want at least one more menu entry here. Otherwise, the
>>    menu is not very useful.
> ...
> 1. The infrastructure is very useful in itself, but I have added an
> option to add the DOI to the kill ring, it seems innocent enough. I had
> first thought that I would like to, as a next step, add a helper
> function to try really hard to get a citation key from a citation, but
> lets go with this.

Thanks!

> +(defcustom org-cite-basic-follow-actions
> +  '[["Open"
> +     ("b" "bibliography entry" (org-cite-basic-goto !citation !prefix))]
> +    ["Copy"
> +     ("d" "DOI"
> +      (kill-new
> +       (save-excursion
> +         (with-temp-buffer
> +           (mapc #'insert-file-contents org-cite-global-bibliography)
> +           (bibtex-set-dialect (parsebib-find-bibtex-dialect) t)
> +           (bibtex-search-entry (org-element-property :key !citation))
> +           (setq doi (bibtex-autokey-get-field "doi"))
> +           (replace-regexp-in-string "^http://dx.doi.org/"; "" doi)))))]]
> +  "Actions in the `org-cite-basic-follow' transient menu.

Two comments here:
1. It should not be a lambda. Better have a function or even command
2. The logic is not right. You should better follow
   `org-cite-basic--key-completion-table':
   `org-cite-basic--parse-bibliography', `org-cite-basic--get-entry',
   and `org-cite-basic--get-field'.

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