[TxMt] Re: My stab at a reftex-ish style citation command

[Charilaos Skiadas]

On Nov 25, 2006, at 7:18 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:

> Out of curiosity, why -show-path=tex?  Just to search for  
> \bibliography commands in those .tex files?  I never put .tex/.bib  
> files in the kpsewhich search path, so I don't know precisely how  
> to use them.
>
My script travels into all \include'd files, looking for  
\bibliography entries there as well. That's where the -show-path=tex  
is being used, to locate the file based on its name in \include{...}.
> For my own amusement, I wrote an Obj-C program that reproduces most  
> of the behavior of LatexCitekeys.rb (I think), and tells BibDesk to  
> open the files if necessary before asking it for completion terms.
>
Cool! Perhaps we can use it to replace the "current" Bibdesk  
completion command in the bundle, so that users have two options when  
it comes to completion?
> It uses a login shell to optionally run kpsewhich and get paths  
> from it, so it works correctly for me even if I run the program  
> from a shell with $PATH="" (and no $PATH in environment.plist).  I  
> was surprised at the number of .bib files it found, actually.
>
> -- Adam

Haris