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Improve documentation for "Using Regular Expression Search for Auto-Linking"

Open claell opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

On https://docs.jabref.org/finding-sorting-and-cleaning-entries/filelinks#using-regular-expression-search-for-auto-linking, the explanation for the regular expressions is misleading. The explanation for * and ** is only valid for the beginning of the line.

Probably, it is also good to reference some general regex site explaining the usage in more detail.

Took me some time to figure out my mistakes and how to properly use this (I have not used regex and wasn't sure whether normal regex is used here or some modified version).

claell avatar May 01 '22 19:05 claell

I agree there is potential for improvement. Since you went through the config process just now, could you expand on the explanation by editing the docs at https://github.com/JabRef/user-documentation/edit/main/en/finding-sorting-and-cleaning-entries/filelinks.md ?

tobiasdiez avatar May 01 '22 20:05 tobiasdiez

Solution for info about RegEx: add link to https://docs.jabref.org/finding-sorting-and-cleaning-entries/search#advanced

ThiloteE avatar May 15 '22 14:05 ThiloteE