Possible Duplicates - Bibkey Comparison

[kristofmeixner]

The 'Possible Duplicates' has a 'strange' behavior when comparing the bibkeys.
If there are two papers of the same author (e.g. Mayer) and the bibkeys are Mayer2019 and Mayer2019a or Mayer2019 and Mayer2019b it would make sense from my point of view to have the 'first' bibkey selected in the mere view.
This would be Mayer2019 in the first case or Mayer2019a in the second case.
However, the later is always selected, i.e., Mayer2019a resp. Mayer2019b.

[alfureu]

Not sure I completely understand this issue but I was wondering whether this is related to #7262 (comment)

My suggestion would be to highlight any duplicates (i.e. not the 1st occasion) in the Entry Table by making the font colour of the entry red by default.

[kristofmeixner]

The issue occurs in the merge view, when I merge the entries. Then the bibtexkey selected is the one of 'higher order'.

[calixtus]

Refs JabRef#331 JabRef#110

[SuXiChangZhen]

Hi, I am a software engineering student and interested in this issue. Is it better if the first entry always has a smaller dictionary order when merge two entries. Hope I understand the issue correctly.