From 8758611b7670699ecaf4335933666a5967f39065 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 13:41:47 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] make the example user function more functional.

shows how to add a function to open a pdf in emacs.
---
 org-ref.el | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/org-ref.el b/org-ref.el
index a019182..72b4b52 100644
--- a/org-ref.el
+++ b/org-ref.el
@@ -3398,7 +3398,13 @@ This is a list of cons cells '((\"description\" . action)). The action function
 ;; example of adding your own function
 (add-to-list
  'org-ref-helm-user-candidates
- '("Example" . (lambda () (message-box "You did it!")))
+ '("Open pdf in emacs" . (lambda ()
+
+			   (find-file
+			    (concat
+			     org-ref-pdf-directory
+			     (car (org-ref-get-bibtex-key-and-file))
+			     ".pdf"))))
  t)
 
 ;;;###autoload
-- 
2.39.2