[TxMt] BibDesk

[Thomas Schröder]

Am 13.04.2005 um 23:10 schrieb Allan Odgaard:

> On Apr 13, 2005, at 16:26, Thomas Schröder wrote:
>
>> 2. BibDesk gives the reference in the following format: "cite-key % 
>> author, title" e.g.
>
> I was indeed a bit puzzled by what it returned :)

:-)

> Okay, here's my take on it:
>
>    osascript -e 'tell app "TextMate" to activate' &>/dev/null &
>    awk <<<$res '{print $1}' | tr -d \\n

Ah, great! OK, I think I'm starting to get the hang of this.

> Or if you want to keep the comment but insert a bracket:
>    perl <<<$res -pe 's/^(\w+)/$1}/'

That doesn't work for me because some of my cite-keys have appendixes 
like "-PVA" for a certain preparation method and the cite-key gets cut 
off at the "-". I prefer not to have the comments anyway, so I opt for 
the first version, so don't bother to fix this. At least not for me :-)

> So the entire command (with the condition on selection) becomes:
> ----------8<----------
> if [[ -z $TM_SELECTED_TEXT ]]
>    then phrase=$TM_CURRENT_WORD
>    else phrase=$TM_SELECTED_TEXT
> fi
>
> res=`osascript <<EOF
> 	tell application "Bibdesk" to set candidates to search for "$phrase" 
> with for completion
> 	tell application "System Events"
> 		activate
> 		choose from list candidates
> 	end tell
> EOF`
> osascript -e 'tell app "TextMate" to activate' &>/dev/null &
>
> res=`perl <<<$res -pe 's/^(\w+)/$1}/'`
> if [[ -z $TM_SELECTED_TEXT ]]
>    then echo -n ${res:${#TM_CURRENT_WORD}}
>    else echo -n $res
> fi

Thanks for the effort, but I think I will stick with my new version 
which by the way incorporates your awk-pipe because that works better 
for me. Your new version does indeed handle things correctly for 
strings that are not part of the cite-key but only if you select the 
string, otherwise you still get a mix-up. For the time being this is 
too confusing for me even though the point still stands that it's way 
more elegant not to have to select some text. Anyways, here's my new 
take on this:

---

res=`osascript <<EOF
    tell application "Bibdesk" to set candidates to search for 
"$TM_SELECTED_TEXT" with for completion
    tell application "System Events"
       activate
       choose from list candidates
    end tell
EOF`

osascript -e 'tell app "TextMate" to activate' &>/dev/null &
awk <<<$res '{print $1}' | tr -d \\n

---

As far as I'm concerned, everything works fine, I have what I wanted, 
so thank you very much!

Best wishes, Thomas