Am 13.04.2005 um 03:21 schrieb Allan Odgaard:

Thanks for your quick and comprehensive reply!

I'm not exactly sure how BibDesk works -- it does install an input manager, but maybe this is to patch the NSTextView of the application, in which case it won't work with TM.

Ah, that's maybe it. Oh, well.

However, BibDesk does support AppleScript to lookup a search string for completion, so what you can do is go to menu Automation / Run Command / Edit Commands...

Make a new command with input: none, output: insert as snippet, key equivalent: option-escape and the actual command:

res=`osascript <<EOF tell application "Bibdesk" to set candidates to search for "$TM_CURRENT_WORD" with for completion tell application "System Events" activate choose from list candidates end tell EOF` osascript -e 'tell app "TextMate" to activate' &>/dev/null & echo -n ${res:${#TM_CURRENT_WORD}}

If you type something, press option-escape, it will lookup the word to the left of the caret, showing matches (from BibDesk) using an AS dialog, and if you select one, it'll insert that choice.

I have added the script to the subversion repository (in the LaTeX bundle), incase anyone wishes to improve it (like not showing the dialog for a single match, handling “cancel” and zero matches (though which BibDesk doesn't seem to give) etc.).

I changed this command a little to my needs for two reasons:

1. This works great if you type the beginning of the cite-key e.g. "Od" for "Odgaard2005" but if you type something from the title e.g. "Te" you'll get something like "Tegaard2005".

2. BibDesk gives the reference in the following format: "cite-key % author, title" e.g.

Odgaard2005 % Odgaard, TextMate - An insanely great new text editor

This is great as such when you want to chose the right item from the AS dialog, but when this string gets inserted, there's the problem that the ending brace from the \cite{} command will be uncommented thanks to BibDesk's percent sign which of course will give you trouble on the next LaTeX run. I could of course fix this by hand for every entry, but what do I have a computer for, I said to myself :-)

So, here goes: Input - Selected Text; Output - Replace Selected Text;

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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` echo -n ${res} > /tmp/BibDesk_Completion.txt osascript -e 'tell app "TextMate" to activate' &>/dev/null & #perl -pe 's/ %/} %/' /tmp/BibDesk_Completion.txt cat /tmp/BibDesk_Completion.txt | awk '{print $1}' > /tmp/BibDesk_Completion.txt echo -n `cat /tmp/BibDesk_Completion.txt` ----

If I were a little more versatile with perl I would have actually gotten rid of everything except the cite-key but I couldn't so I used awk to do that for me. But maybe some kind soul out there is more savvy than me :-)

I also realize that creating the temporary file is a bit of kludge, but it's that versatility thing again :-)

Finally, I realize that having now to select the text is not as elegant as your solution but I don't see any other way if I want to use other bits than just the beginning of the cite key.

Anyways, thanks again for the quick reply and for TextMate, it really is insanely great! As for the above, maybe somebody will find this useful, I certainly do.

Best wishes, Thomas

On Apr 13, 2005, at 16:26, Thomas Schröder wrote:

I changed this command a little to my needs for two reasons:

1. This works great if you type the beginning of the cite-key e.g.

"Od" for "Odgaard2005" but if you type something from the title e.g. "Te" you'll get something like "Tegaard2005".

Ah yes -- I didn't realize it was a sub-string search. What you could do is start the command like this:

if [[ -z $TM_SELECTED_TEXT ]] then phrase=$TM_CURRENT_WORD else phrase=$TM_SELECTED_TEXT fi

and then search for "$phrase", which will be current word when there is no selection. You'd need a similar 'if' construct when returning the result, so to cut the prefix when doing current word search.

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 :)

echo -n ${res} > /tmp/BibDesk_Completion.txt osascript -e 'tell app "TextMate" to activate' &>/dev/null & #perl -pe 's/ %/} %/' /tmp/BibDesk_Completion.txt cat /tmp/BibDesk_Completion.txt | awk '{print $1}' > /tmp/BibDesk_Completion.txt echo -n `cat /tmp/BibDesk_Completion.txt`

Okay, here's my take on it:

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

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

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