[TxMt] BibDesk

[Allan Odgaard]

On Apr 12, 2005, at 13:22, Thomas Schröder wrote:

> To use the service you type \cite{H}, leave the cursor at H and type 
> Alt-Escape; this will give you a list of all references that contain 
> H, but in TextMate this only cylcles through several words containing 
> H. In TextMate the Escape key is set to "Next Completion", so I guess 
> that this either clashes with BibDesk's hot key or TextMate doesn't 
> support BibDesk at all.

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.

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.).