Feature request: add 'timestamp' and 'owner' to 'bibtex-clean-entry'

[basille]

I'm not sure if this belongs to bibtex-utils or should go straight to bibtex.el, but I couldn't find a way to ask this on the later (only solution seems to report bugs).

When I run bibtex-clean-entry (C-c C-c), I would like to automatically add the timestamp and the owner, just like I have when I create a new entry from template with:

(defun current-date ()
    (format-time-string "%Y.%m.%d"))    
(setq
    bibtex-user-optional-fields '(
                                 ("timestamp" "Time the entry was created" current-date)
                                 ("owner" "Owner of the entry" user-login-name)
)

Is this possible? Thanks!

[plantarum]

Hi,

That's a good suggestion. However, that is part of bibtex.el, and not bibtex-utils.el. It might be possible to add a work-around in bibtex-utils, but I won't have any time to look at this in the immediate future. Maybe later in the year, but my schedule is packed until the end of November.

Good luck,

Tyler

[basille]

I also think it belongs to bibtex.el… but I cannot find a way to post such a request, or simply to ask directly for help (it might actually be already possible, but I cannot find it in the documentation either). In the meanwhile, I asked for help on Stack Exchange, let's see if I'm lucky. Next step would be to contact the maintainer directly, which seems to be Roland Winkler at the moment.