On Dec 20, 2007, at 3:39 PM, Kieran Healy wrote:

Hi,

TextMate's LaTeX bundle can't find my bib files when using the citation completion commands. It returns the error, "Can't find any files named 'bibname'", where bibname is the name of my bib file. The bib files are in a local directory, ~/Documents/bibs. There is a symbolic link to this directory in ~/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib. Doing kpsewhich -show-path=bib returns

...

/Users/kjhealy/Documents/bibs:.:/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///

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

When we run kpsewhich in that script, we do not load any of the shell files like .bash_profile and friends. So if TM_LATEX_BIB is set there, we don't typically see it, and hence neither will our call of kpsewhich.

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

Make sure that the value you set there is exactly /Users/kjhealy/ Documents/bibs, without a trailing newline.

That should hopefully do it.

TM_LATEX_BIB is set to /Users/kjhealy/Documents/bibs. Latex documents will compile happily (using latexmk.pl) within TextMate, including their bibliographies. It's just the citation completion within documents that isn't working. My Latex bundle and Support folder are at revision 8696. I'm running Leopard (10.5.1) and TextMate 1.5.7 (1436).

Any hints on why this isn't working as it should?

Kieran

Haris Skiadas Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Hanover College