On Dec 20, 2007, at 5:11 PM, Kieran Healy wrote:

Hi Haris,

thanks for the quick reply.

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Doing kpsewhich -show-path=bib returns

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/Users/kjhealy/Documents/bibs:.:/Users/kjhealy/Library/texmf/ [etc]

Is this what is also returned if your type in TM: kpsewhich -show- path=bib followed by pressing ctrl-R?

Yes.

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So what you would want to do is set TM_LATEX_BIB in TextMate's preferences as well (TextMate -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Shell Variables.

Yes, this is set too, as the full path, /Users/kjhealy/Documents/ bibs. The problem is now a little weirder. I have this issue on two Leopard machines. One is a G5 desktop and one is a recent Macbook Pro.

I thought the problem might have to do with the symlinks I was using to point to ~/Documents/bibs. So I deleted the symlinks and moved all the bib files to ~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib. So there's no ~/Documents/bibs anymore, and no symlinks to it. I changed TM_LATEX_BIB in TextMate to reflect this (and changed BIBINPUTS in bash_profile, too). Now kpsewhich -show-path=bib inside TM gives

kpsewhich -show-path=bib/Users/kjhealy/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib:.:/ Users/kjhealy/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib//:!!/usr/local/gwTeX/ texmf.local/bibtex/bib//:!!/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs/bibtex/ bib//:!!/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.gwtex/bibtex/bib//:!!/usr/local/ gwTeX/texmf.texlive/bibtex/bib//:!!/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf/bibtex/ bib//:/Users/kjhealy/Library/texmf/bibtex///:!!/usr/local/gwTeX/ texmf.local/bibtex///:!!/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs/bibtex///:!!/ usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.gwtex/bibtex///:!!/usr/local/gwTeX/ texmf.texlive/bibtex///:!!/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf/bibtex///

Again, latex/bibtex compile fine. via latexmk. Now when I try to complete a citation from a word, I get the following error:

Sorry my bad, I've been a bit rusty. TM_LATEX_BIB is supposed to point to an actual bib file, not the directory. What you want is to set the BIBINPUTS variable in TM to the directory path as well, like you set it in bash_profile. (hopefully ;) ). I'm kind of surprised this wasn't a problem earlier, if you had set TM_LATEX_BIB to that directory.

Let's hope this would fix it.

Haris Skiadas Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Hanover College

/Users/kjhealy/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles/ Latex.tmbundle/Support/lib/LaTeXUtils.rb:114:in `read': Is a directory - /Users/kjhealy/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib (Errno::EISDIR) from /Users/kjhealy/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles/ Latex.tmbundle/Support/lib/LaTeXUtils.rb:114:in `parse_bibfile' from /Users/kjhealy/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles/ Latex.tmbundle/Support/lib/LaTeXUtils.rb:252:in `cite_scan' from /Users/kjhealy/Library/Application Support/TextMate/ Bundles/ Latex.tmbundle/Support/lib/LaTeXUtils.rb:248:in `each' from /Users/kjhealy/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles/ Latex.tmbundle/Support/lib/LaTeXUtils.rb:248:in `cite_scan' from /Users/kjhealy/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles/ Latex.tmbundle/Support/lib/LaTeXUtils.rb:216:in `call' from /Users/kjhealy/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles/ Latex.tmbundle/Support/lib/LaTeXUtils.rb:216:in `recursive_scan' from /Users/kjhealy/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles/ Latex.tmbundle/Support/lib/LaTeXUtils.rb:215:in `each' from /Users/kjhealy/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles/ Latex.tmbundle/Support/lib/LaTeXUtils.rb:215:in `recursive_scan' ... 7 levels... from /Users/kjhealy/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles/ Latex.tmbundle/Support/lib/LaTeXUtils.rb:204:in `recursive_scan' from /Users/kjhealy/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles/ Latex.tmbundle/Support/lib/LaTeXUtils.rb:255:in `cite_scan' from /Users/kjhealy/Library/Application Support/TextMate/Bundles/ Latex.tmbundle/Support/lib/LaTeXUtils.rb:63:in `get_citations' from /tmp/temp_textmate.fLdPNM:8

I get this error with different documents and different bibfiles. If I uncheck the TM_LATEX_BIB variable in TM preferences and try to cite something, the cursor changes to a cross and nothing else happens.

Kieran